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: Latino Studies
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I heard of Adrienne Dawes when a show that talked about Mexican identity called Casta came on my radar. I knew that I had to connect with her. She is a boss writer and the head of a production company called Heckle Her. She is the mastermind behind dope shows like Doper than Dope, Am…
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I’m A Mixed-Race Woman But Everyone Thinks I’m White — Which Hurts My Pride But Gives Me Privilege Bustle 2017-02-07 Danielle Campoamor Source: Courtesy of Danielle Campoamor “We can’t help you here,” was all the receptionist would tell me. I was 20 years old, living in Plainview, Texas, and trying to see a doctor —…
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“Double Bind / Double Consciousness” in the Poetry of Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos Cincinnati Romance Review Volume 30 (Winter 2011) pages 69-82 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Director of the Women’s & Gender Studies Program; Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington Carmen Colón Pellot and Julia de Burgos constructed a female literary…
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Interview with Scenters-Zapico As Us Issue 2 (December 2015) Casandra Lopez, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief “As a poet, I’m interested in what art can be created from the anxieties of being from such a place. What can we create from these experiences? I’m a poet, not a rhetorician—it’s not my place to tell you as a reader…
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Natalie Scenters-Zapico is from the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, U.S.A. and Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, México. She is the author of The Verging Cities, which won the 2016 Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award, the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies Tejas FOCO Award, was featured as a top ten debut of…
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From undocumented men named Angel, to angels falling from the sky, Natalie Scenters-Zapico’s gripping debut collection, The Verging Cities, is filled with explorations of immigration and marriage, narco-violence and femicide, and angels in the domestic sphere. Deeply rooted along the US-México border in the sister cities of El Paso, Texas, and Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, these…
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Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel alt.Latino: Latinx Arts and Culture National Public Radio 2017-01-04 Felix Contreras, Host Xenia Rubinos plays Guest DJ on this week’s episode of Alt.Latino. Courtesy of the artist Vocalist Xenia Rubinos ended 2016 with a bang: Her album Black Terry Cat was singled out in best-of-the-year…