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: Law
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The Loving Story – HBO Screening Event Multiracial Network Blog 2012-01-24 It is a rare occasion for Marc Johnston, MRN Chair, and Heather Lou, MRN Incoming Chair, to find themselves in the same city outside of the annual ACPA Convention. So what do these two fun-loving higher education and student affairs administrators choose to do…
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Crossing the color line Baylor University August 2011 107 pages Alisha Hash A Thesis Approved by the Department of History Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Baylor University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Miscegenation, a word not coined until the Civil War, has been an intrinsic part…
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Race, Sex, and Social Order in Early New Orleans Johns Hopkins University Press 2009 352 pages 7 halftones Hardback ISBN: 9780801886805 Jennifer M. Spear, Associate Professor of History Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Winner, 2009 Kemper and Leila Williams Prize in Lousiana History, The Historic New Orleans Collection and the Louisiana Historical Association…
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Unfixing Race: Class, Power, and Identity in an Interracial Family The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Volume 102, Number 3 (July, 1994) pages 349-380 Thomas E. Buckley, S.J., Professor of American Religious History Jesuit School of Theology, Berkeley Santa Clara University This article is also available as a chapter in Martha Hode’s (ed.) Sex,…
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Why Race Isn’t as ‘Black’ and ‘White’ as We Think The New York Times 2005-10-31 Brent Staples People have occasionally asked me how a black person came by a “white” name like Brent Staples. One letter writer ridiculed it as “an anchorman’s name” and accused me of making it up. For the record, it’s a…
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Tale of a ‘Seditionist’–The Lawrence Dennis Story AntiWar.com 2000-04-29 Justin Raimondo War infects and weakens our republican form of government, spreads social and political diseases throughout the body politic—but is, as Randolph Bourne put it, “the health of the State.” The State, in wartime, is glorified and empowered: the militarization of society means that all…
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Southern Free Women of Color In the Antebellum North: Race, Class, and a “New Women’s Legal History”
Southern Free Women of Color In the Antebellum North: Race, Class, and a “New Women’s Legal History” Akron Law Review Volume 41, 1Number 3 (2007-2008) pages 763-798 Bernie D. Jones, Associate Professor of Law Suffolk University I. Configuring Race, Gender, and Class in American Legal History II. African-American Women in the Antebellum United States: Enslaved…
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The first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.
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2011 Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law by Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig: “According to Our Hearts: What Does the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Case Teach Us about Race, Law, and Family?” University of California, Davis School of Law Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom 2011-11-08, 16:00-18:00 PST (Local Time) Run Time: 01:05:58 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J.…
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The Case of Loving v. Bigotry The New York Times 2012-01-01 Julie Bosman Photography by: Grey Villet In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom by the sheriff of Caroline County, Va. Their crime: being married to each other. The Lovings—Mildred, who was of African-American and Native American…