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: Asian Diaspora
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LAURA KINA Blue Hawai’i The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture Brooklyn, New York 2015-04-02 Jonathan Goodman HAROLD B. LEMMERMAN GALLERY, NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY JANUARY 27 – MARCH 3, 2015 As an Asian-American painter of mixed background, Laura Kina creates work that is as culturally relevant as it is emotionally resonant.…
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A Sharp White Background Renegade 2015-04-02 Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence (aka the Blazian Invasion) how I learned what race feels like Just Words I am riding home from middle school in Washington, D.C. one day when a white man gets on my bus full of black faces and calls us nigger. My stomach drops. The boys at…
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Mixed-race Migration and Adoption in Gish Jen’s The Love Wife Canadian Review of Comparative Literature / Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée Volume 42, Issue 1, Mars 2015 pages 45-56 Jenny Wen-chuan Chu National Kaohsiung Normal University, Taiwan Migration is a way of geographic movement. It involves a sense of belonging, nostalgia and diaspora issues. Besides,…
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The Love Wife: A Novel Vintage Books 2005-10-11 400 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4000-7651-2 Gish Jen From the massively talented Gish Jen comes a barbed, moving, and stylistically dazzling new novel about the elusive nature of kinship. The Wongs describe themselves as a “half half” family, but the actual fractions are more complicated, given Carnegie’s Chinese…
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Gorgeous Black-And-White Portraits Explore The Meaning Of Multiracial Identities The Huffington Post 2015-03-30 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor “I began this project because I recognized that I was part of a underrepresented group of people,” artist Samantha Wall explained in an email to HuffPost. “It’s difficult to talk about multiraciality with individuals who…
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Redefining — by not defining — biracialism The Daily Illini: The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Tuesday, 2015-03-31 Audrey Majors, Opinions columnist Last week controversy arose over Japan’s 2015 Miss Universe contestant, Ariana Miyamoto, because she’s biracial— something critics, many of whom are Japanese, have taken issue with. Miyamoto has…
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Rivas awarded NEH Summer Stipends award to work on book News From Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia 2015-03-25 Dave Wellman, Director of Communications Telephone: (304) 696-7153 HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Dr. Zelideth Maria Rivas, an assistant professor of Japanese in Marshall University’s Department of Modern Languages, has been awarded a “very competitive” National Endowment for the…
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Meet Elizabeth Liang from Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey Culture Shock Toolbox 2015-03-23 H. E. Rybol Elizabeth acts on stage, film, and television. A graduate of Wesleyan (after transferring from Wellesley), she is a published essayist (“Checked Baggage: Writing Unpacked,” “Transforming Three Sisters”) and has a column about creative adult TCKs at TheDisplacedNation.com. She is also…
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Navigating Through my Tamil-Filipino World: An Account of a Mixed First Generation Kid Tamil Culture 2014-01-30 Shanelle Kandiah Throughout my life, every time I have come to meet someone for the first time, I seem to always be asked about my ethnicity. Over the course of a conversation with someone, I can even anticipate the…
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Miss Universe Japan — spectacle, race, and dreams Grits and Sushi: my musings on okinawa, race, militarization, and blackness 2015-03-19 Mitzi Uehara Carter The newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is Blackanese. No, she’s Japanese. No, she’s Haafu. Multiracial? Mixed? Japanese enough to represent Japan in a silly beauty contest? Ariana Miyamoto is from Nagasaki, Japan…