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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‘Everything I Never Told You’ Exposed In Biracial Family’s Loss Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-28 Arun Rath All Things Considered It’s May, 1977, in small-town Ohio, and the Lee family is sitting down at breakfast. James is Chinese-American and Marilyn is white, and they have three children —…
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Fatal Invention with Dorothy Roberts Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-07-24, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-07-25, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and…
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The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America – Daniel J. Sharfstein Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-06-26, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-06-27, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Join author, Daniel J. Sharfstein for a discussion of his book and…
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CA+T Interview with Laura Kina Center for Art and Thought 2014-09-07 Rachel Ishikawa, CA+T Interviewer Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Rachel Ishikawa: When did art begin for you? Laura Kina: My mom. She had been a double major in art and sociology in undergrad and worked…
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Researchers discuss origins of Melungeon heritage at annual event WCBY.com (News 5) Brisol, Virginia 2014-06-28 Olivia Caridi BIG STONE GAP, Va. – Wayne Winkler discovered he was a Melungeon at 12 years old. His grandmother is a Melungeon. His father is, too. “I had never heard the word, so I asked my relatives what a Melungeon…
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After Tiananmen Square, New Lives On A New Continent Tell Me More National Public Radio 2014-06-04 Michel Martin, Host After the democracy protests were crushed in 1989, many thought China would turn inward. Instead, a million Chinese citizens moved to Africa. Howard French discusses his book China’s Second Continent. MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: I’m Michel Martin,…
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China in Africa The Leonard Lopate Show WNYC 93.9 FM New York 2014-06-04 Leonard Lopate, Host China’s presence in Africa has been growing and it is shaping, and reshaping, the future of millions of people. Howard French, prizewinning foreign correspondent and former New York Times bureau chief in Shanghai and in West and Central Africa,…
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‘Belle’: Romance, Race And Slavery With Jane Austen Style National Public Radio Tell Me More 2014-05-29 Michel Martin, Host British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw was brought up on Jane Austen adaptations. “You know, the Pride and Prejudice with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home…
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China’s economic engagement in Africa can be measured in dollars — for instance, the $71 million airport expansion contract in Mali, funded by American foreign aid, that went to a Chinese construction firm. More remarkably, it can be measured in people: More than a million Chinese citizens have permanently moved to Africa, buying land, starting…