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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In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity Here & Now WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts 2016-08-03 Sil Lai Abrams, author of “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” (Courtesy of Che Williams) When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark…
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Zawe Ashton interview: The actress is moving on from Fresh Meat with a starring role in Channel 4’s comedy drama Not Safe for Work The Independent 2015-06-19 Gillian Orr Multi-talented: Ashton likes to do her own thing Immo Klink Acting, directing, writing: Zawe Ashton is a woman on the move. Gillian Orr tries to keep…
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Episode 21 w/ Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes Blacticulate 2016-03-07 Ade Bamgbala, Host Sheila Ruiz, Head of Programmes, Partnerships and Operations Royal African Society, London, England Sheila Ruiz This was another great episode where Sheila and Mangaliso (her newborn) give great advice on how to create a successful event, the challenges, internship platforms out there…
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Skin Deep Meets Stella Corradi Skin Deep: Race + Culture London, England, United Kingdom 2016-07-08 Anuradha Henriques, Editor East London writer and director Stella Corradi talks fantasy, addiction and her short film “Little Soldier” Stella Corradi, East London born and bred, is the writer and director behind the short film Little Soldier. Loosely influenced by…
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More than a coming of age story, Danzy Senna’s first novel, “Caucasia” (Riverhead Books, 1998) addresses themes of coming into consciousness within the U.S. ethnoracial landscape. Clearly in dialogue with Nella Larsen’s “Passing” as well as Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” “Caucasia” is a first person narrative where anything that happens to the protagonist, Birdie Lee,…
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Q&A with ‘Indian Blood’ author Andrew J. Jolivette University of Washington Press Blog 2016-06-24 In his new book Indian Blood: HIV & Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community, Andrew J. Jolivette examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, and provides an analysis of the emerging…