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: Asian Diaspora
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On blackness and autism, identity and essence Ray Hemachandra @ Golden Moon Publishing: Autism, spirit, beauty. Compassion. Love. Kindness. Sparks of light. 2014-02-24 Ray Hemachandra Often I’m asked “What are you?” Racial and ethnic identity still inform so much in our culture. The question asked really is a question of identity. “What are you?” masks…
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Take the current Irish dance “it” girl, Julia O’Rourke. She was born in New York, and has Filipino and Irish ancestry. At age 15, she is a two-time world champion and star of the Irish dance documentary “Jig.” That film follows dancers from around the world who are training for and traveling to the 2010…
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Snap! Space presents Zun Lee Snap! Orlando 1013 E. Colonial Drive Orlando, Florida 32803 Saturday, October 25, 2014 14:00-16:00 EDT (Local Time) Join us for an afternoon artist talk and book signing with photographer Zun Lee. Zun will be joining us from Toronto and discuss his series ‘Father Figure’ and sign copies of his newly…
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Albert Chong: “The Photomosaics: Works on Paper, Wood, and Stone”, on view through November 1, 2014 Counterpath 613 22nd Street Denver, Colorado 80205 (303) 953-2692 2014-10-03 through 2014-11-01 “Angela” (2011) by Albert Chong Opening Friday, October 3, 2014, at 7 p.m., and on view through November 1, 2014, Counterpath is excited to host an exhibit…
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I’m more than someone who’s of mixed race The Appleton Post-Crescent Appleton, Wisconsin 2014-10-08 Mia Sato, Post-Crescent Community Columnist Identity can be tough to sort out sometimes, but it doesn’t change some things about me My life is defined by numerical classifications. I’m 19 years old, a second-year college student, the eldest of four children.…
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Hapa changes name to Association of Multiracial People at Tufts to reflect new goals The Tufts Daily Medford, Massachusetts 2014-10-14 Yuki Zaninovich, Contributing Writer For the Association of Multiracial People at Tufts (AMPT), there is a lot in a name. AMPT, formerly known as Tufts Hapa, aims to create a community for students who identify…
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Identity In Pieces: When You Don’t Know Where You Count The Aerogram: A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news 2014-10-01 Jaya Saxena Queens, New York Last summer, I wore a pink and yellow sari to my cousin’s wedding. As my Indian family lingered in the hotel lobby, dressed up and waiting…
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What It’s Like To Be Half-Japanese Thought Catalog 2014-10-08 Michelle Reimann Eurasian, half-Japanese, bi-racial, mixed race, hafu, hapa, double, hybrid, dual culture, TCK (third culture kid,) the axis of evil (yeah, yeah: I am German and Japanese, get over it.) However you choose to describe me my lineage is often one of the most frequently…
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Daughters tell stories of ‘war brides’ despised back home and in the U.S. The Japan Times 2014-10-05 Lucy Alexander Hiroko Furukawa was working as a sales assistant at the PX U.S. military supply store in Ginza in 1950 when she met a GI named Samuel Tolbert. Shortly afterwards, Hiroko and Samuel found themselves married and…