Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
- 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
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Category: Latino Studies
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I argue that these concerns about Cardi B’s Blackness elucidate broader conflicting racial views across the African Diaspora, as well as particular concerns about race in a U.S. context.
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The film, set in a New York neighborhood known as the Little Dominican Republic, didn’t cast dark-skinned Latinos in lead roles. Our writers discuss how that absence reverberates.
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Opinion: ‘In the Heights’ is just more of the same whitewashed Hollywood The Washington Post 2021-06-21 Julissa Contreras and Dash Harris Machado Producer Lin-Manuel Miranda attends the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival opening-night premiere of “In the Heights” on June 9 in New York. (Evan Agostini/Invision/AP) Julissa Contreras is a Dominican writer, poet, actor and creator…
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In three segments, we’re going to have a conversation about how Afro-Latinx folks often get left out of national discussions about Blackness and, in particular, the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Through her work in creating ‘NEGRO: A DOCU-SERIES ABOUT LATINX IDENTITY,’ Harris hopes to dismantle anti-Blackness in the LatinX community.
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We all know what identity theft is, in a world filled with cyber crimes. We’ve all watched horror films with body snatchers as the main villains. Things become far more complicated when we address the issue of humans who, for a host of warped reasons, assume a false racial or ethnic identity.