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
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- 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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EPSY 203: Exploring Biracial/multiracial Identity Course Description University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Part of the EPSY 203: Social Issues Group Dialogue Courses) EPSY 203 provides students with opportunities to converse on diversity and social justice topic areas. Each section uses a structured dialogue format to explore intergroup and intragroup differences and similarities within historical and contemporary…
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(19) Half-frican: Black Identity in the Caribbean, England, and the United States The Colloge of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio 2011 Shannon King, Assistant Professor of History During the last presidential election, Rush Limbaugh, the controversial and conservative Republican radio personality, dubbed Barack H. Obama, our 44th President of the United States, as a “Half-frican.” Limbaugh, in…
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(ANT/NAS 493): Mixed Blood: Looking at the Relationship Between Africans and Native Americans Creighton University Omaha, Nebraska Fall 2005 Rev. Raymond A. Bucko, S.J., Professor of Anthropology In this course the relationship between Africans and Native Americans will be explored. “Africans and Native Americans worked as slaves and as free men together. Both groups played important…
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English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Martinez “I had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.” —Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the “art” of racial passing and masquerade in American…
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EWS [Ethnic & Women’s Studies] 450(4) Course ID:003122: Multiracial and Hybrid Identities California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 2010-09-22 Interdisciplinary exploration of the development, meaning, and sociopolitical implications of hybridity in constructing racial, ethnic and gender identities in the U.S. Status and experience of hybrid people, e.g. biracial/multiracials examined through synthesis of anthropology, arts, history, literature,…
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PHIL 3830. Philosophy and Race University of North Carolina, Charlotte Cross-listed as AFRS 3830. This course both examines the role of the concept of race in the Western philosophical canon, and uses current philosophical texts and methods to examine Western discourses of race and racism. Issues such as whiteness, double consciousness, the black/white binary, Latino…
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Honors 301: Mixed Race Art and Identity DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Autumn Quarter 2011-2012 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media, & Design Mixed Race Art & Identity will focus on contemporary art and popular culture to critically examine images of miscegenation and mixed race and post-ethnoracial identity constructs. Students will learn about the history and…
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Anthropology 324L/American Studies 321: The Black Indian Experience in the United States University of Texas, Austin Fall 2011 Circe Dawn Sturm, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Texas, Austin This course explores the entwined histories, cultures and identities of African American and Native American people in the United States. Long neglected in popular and scholarly…
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Just Between Sisters: Gender, Race, Class, Sexuality, and Relationships of Mixed-Race Women and Girls (AMS) (HRJ) (GEN) (HUM) HUMN 7302 Southern Methodist University Fall 2012 Evelyn L. Parker, Associate Professor of Practical Theology In 1967 the US Supreme Court ruled state miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Instituted in 1691, the state laws sought to prevent sexual mixing…