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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There is a gloriously unaffected vibe about Gina Prince-Bythewood. Cerebral and sublime, casually beautiful and laser-focused, she has written and directed impressive television and film for the past twenty-plus years with equal parts rigor and joy. And she has achieved all this without losing her sense of self as a Black woman in America, and…
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Belonging is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton The Rumpus 2021-03-01 Donna Hemans “My teacher’s methods were most definitely trash, but that day she taught me a valuable lesson about race,” Georgina Lawton writes in her memoir Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth about Where I Belong. “She let me know that whiteness…
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The nation’s oldest ranger is hopeful for tomorrow: ‘I get a feeling that change is going to come’
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New Miami Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel: ‘Extremely proud’ to be biracial ESPN 2022-02-11 Marcel Louis-Jacques, Miami Dolphins Reporter MIAMI — Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel, clarifying comments this week in which he said he identified “as a human being,” affirmed that his racial background is not something he simply identifies as — it’s what he is.…
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On Being Other: Primadonna 2021 Primadonna Festival2022-02-11 Join writer and journalist Bee Rowlatt as she introduces this year’s Costa winner Monique Roffey, author of the remarkable novel The Mermaid of Black Conch, and Natalie Morris, whose debut title Mixed/Other came out in 2021. Together they explore shared themes of otherness, outsider
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I’m a bi-national writer based in East London. My identity is mixed and fluid in that I was born in Port of Spain, (a city I frequently return to), but I’m also half English. Via my mother, I have Italian, Maltese and Middle Eastern blood.
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A New Orleans Company Shines A Light On Opera’s Diverse History Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2017-05-28 Malika Gumpangkum and Lulu Garcia-Navarro From left to right: Aria Mason (Rosalia), Ebonee Davis (Piquita) and Kenya Lawrence Jackson (La Flamenca) star in OperaCréole’s production of La Flamenca. Cedric A. Ellsworth/Courtesy of OperaCréole For many people, New…
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NPR’s Scott Simon speaks to Nadia Owusu about her memoir, Aftershocks.