Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Category: Interviews
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Interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda on Racial Prescriptions Theory, Culture & Society 2015-12-22 Sibille Merz, Doctoral Researcher Goldsmiths, University of London Questioning Racial Prescriptions: An interview with Jonathan Xavier Inda Sibille Merz: Racial Prescriptions provides a timely, illuminating and theoretically-engaged analysis of the making of BiDil, the first (and only) drug that was marketed exclusively…
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IN THE WHITE FRAME : An interview with mixed-race dancers Angel Langley & Jasmmine Ramgotra Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-08-30 Sharon H. Chang STRANGE COUPLING is an annual juried exhibition of collaborations between University of Washington (UW) student artists and local professional artists. Over a…
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Black Intellectual History and STEM: A Conversation with Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein AAIHS: African American Intellectual History Society 2016-08-29 Greg Childs, Assistant Professor Departments of History and African and Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts This month, I interviewed Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein on the intersections of black intellectual history and STEM. Dr. Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical…
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Meet American Olympian Anthony Ervin: The Oldest-Ever Individual Olympic Swimming Gold Medalist Democracy Now! 2016-08-15 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer While Michael Phelps dominated the Olympic headlines over the weekend by scoring a historic 23rd gold medal, another American male swimmer has also made history in Rio. Thirty-five-year-old Anthony Ervin became the oldest-ever individual…
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Q&A: Sophomore creates group to discuss mixed-race issues The Ithican Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York 2016-08-24 Celisa Calacal, Opinion Editor Sophomore Walt Martzen created the group IC Mixed, where students can discuss mixed-race issues, a topic Martzen believes is often missing from conversations on race and identity. Jade Cardichon/The Ithacan This semester, sophomore Walt Martzen…
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On passing, wishing for darker skin, and finding your people: A conversation between two mulattos Fusion 2015-06-15 Collier Meyerson In 10th grade, I auditioned for the role of Julie in the musical Show Boat, one of the most famous portrayals of the tragic mulatto trope. I was cast, instead, as Queenie, the mammy. I deserved…
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Episode 096: Nicholas Guyatt, The Origins of Racial Segregation in the United States Ben Franklin’s World: A Podcast About Early American History 2016-08-22 Liz Covart, Host and Historian Boston, Massachusetts Ever wonder how the United States’ problem with race developed and why early American reformers didn’t find a way to fix it during the earliest…
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Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The “What’s Underneath Project,” Talks Racism, Insecurities Madame Noire 2016-08-22 Brande Victorian, Managing Editor Michaela Angela Davis has long been everything and then some to us, and our opinion of the writer, culture critique, and activist has only skyrocketed after watching her strip down for StyleLikeU’s highly regarded “What’s…
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Author and Professor Devyn Benson Speaks on Her Book “Antiracism in Cuba” Block Report Radio 2016-07-14 “Antiracism in Cuba: The Unfinished Revolution” by author and professor Devyn Benson is an impressive study on the history of racism and Black organizing in Cuba prior to the 1959 revolution and right after it. This book is very…