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: Nia King, “Bodies on the Line” Mixed Reader: A blog of mixed race literature 2013-04-27 Tali Weinberg Nia King is multimedia producer with a passion for social justice. She started out as a zinester writing about mixed-race identity, made a short film about searching for trans-friendly housing in the Bay Area, and has recently…
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Family and Community History of the Winton Triangle Research at the National Archives & Beyond BlogTalk Radio 2013-04-22, 21:00-22:00 EDT (2013-04-23, 01:00-02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director Chowan Discovery Group From Family History to Community History—the Chowan Discovery Group Story with Marvin T. Jones, Executive Director of the Chowan Discovery Group (CDG).…
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Brown Babies Germany’s Forgotten Children – Henriette Cain Research at the National Archives & Beyond BlogTalk Radio 2013-01-17 Bernice Bennett, Host Are you searching for your family? Are you German, Brown and want to learn more about your American or German heritage? Join Henriette Cain Genealogist, Search Consultant and Secretary of the Black German Cultural…
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Richard Pryor’s Daughter on Growing Up Biracial WNYC Radio New York, New York WNYC News 2013-04-07 Soterios Johnson April 7, 2013 – Richard Pryor, one of the most influential comedians of all-time, gained pop star status in the 1970’s with his incisive storytelling about issues including race. Now, his daughter Rain is sharing her take…
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A White Face With A Forgotten African Family All Things Considered National Public Radio 2012-11-24 Jacki Lyden, Host Growing up blond-haired and blue-eyed in Southern California, Joe Mozingo always thought his family name was Italian. But as an adult, Mozingo became skeptical of that theory when friends and co-workers began to ask him about his…
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The Rumpus Interview with Joe Mozingo The Rumpus 2013-03-04 Peter Orner I recently finished a powerful book about a journey to find the origin of a name. It’s called the The Fiddler on Pantico Run: An African Warrior, His White Descendants, A Search for Family by Joe Mozingo. The book details Mozingo’s search for the…
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Adopting the wisdom of Pearl S. Buck gbtimes: The Third Angle Chinese news and video reports on China today 2013-03-26 Asa Butcher When listing an author’s life achievements, it is rare for their Nobel Prize for Literature and Pulitzer Prize to be overshadowed. However, Pearl S. Buck’s humanitarian work with children leaves those awards in…