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
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- 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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Descendants Of Native American Slaves In New Mexico Emerge From Obscurity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2016-12-29 John Burnett, Southwest Correspondent, National Desk Santo Tomas Catholic church in Abiquiu, N.M., is the site of an annual saint’s day celebration in late November that includes cultural elements of the genizaros, the descendants of Native American…
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Afro-Latinos: a vision of Houston’s mixed-race future The Houtson Chronicle Houston, Texas 2016-11-19 Olivia P. Tallet, Reporter Afro-Latinos embody Texas’ mixed-race future It happens all the time. At the taco truck, Raul Orlando Edwards placed his fajita order: “Señorita, por favor, póngale la cebolla bien cocida” (“I’d like the onions well-done.”) “Man,” said the African-American…
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Edit desk: Passing is a choice The Brown and White: All The Lehigh news first since 1894 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 2016-11-29 Gaby Morera, Managing Editor Once I was complaining about the challenges of being Hispanic in America to a friend of mine. I can’t even remember what I was saying, but I remember the person’s response…
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Meet Shereen Marisol Meraji, A Latina Journalist Tackling Race & Idendity Through Podcasting Latina 2016-11-23 Raquel Reichard, Politics & Culture Editor Hugo Rojo With Donald Trump, a candidate who ran on racism, xenophobia, sexism, Islamophobia and a disdain for journalists, heading to the White House, reports by and about the communities most impacted by the…
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Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race Oxford University Press 2016-10-31 376 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches Hardcover ISBN: 9780190625696 Edited by: H. Samy Alim, Professor of Education; Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics (by courtesy) Stanford University John R. Rickford, J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities Stanford University Arnetha F. Ball,…
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The Life and Times of Pío Pico, Last Governor of Mexican California Lost LA KCET Burbank, California 2016-10-27 William D. Estrada, Curator of California and American History and Chair of the History Department Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Pío de Jesus Pico and his wife, María Ignacia Alvarado Pico, in 1852, with two…
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Federal officials may revamp how Americans identify race, ethnicity on census and other forms Pew Research Center 2016-10-04 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor Federal officials are moving ahead with the most important potential changes in two decades in how the government asks Americans about their racial and Hispanic identity. They include combining separate race and Hispanic…
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Afro-Latinos Have a Well-Deserved Place at the New National Museum of African American History Remezcla 2016-09-27 Yara Simón, Trending Editor This weekend marked the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. After Rep. John Lewis and others spent decades battling Congress for funding, the museum opened its doors on Sunday from…