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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The Bots Are Taking Over The New York Times Magazine 2013-12-20 Julie Bosman Photographs by Rebecca Smeyne Mikaiah and Anaiah Lei, the brothers from Los Angeles who make up the band the Bots, have been writing and playing rock songs together for seven years. Now 20 and 17, they are on the cusp of stardom…
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Afro-Vietnamese Orphans Tell Their Stories in ‘Indochina: Traces of a Mother’ Black Film Center/Archive Indiana University, Bloomington 2012-04-25 A new(er) documentary film by Idrissou Mora-Kpai follows the stories of Afro-Vietnamese orphans born of Vietnamese mothers and West African fathers – tirailleurs sénégalais – brought by the French to fight la sale guerre, mostly in today’s…
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An eclectic heritage, a penchant for hip-hop, and life as an artist in New York City set Tim Okamura (MFA 1993 Illustration as Visual Essay) on a path toward social consciousness. Collected by celebrity clients (including Uma Thurman, Questlove and John Mellencamp) and exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London, his portraits are meant…
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Chinese in Latin America H-Soz-u-Kult Außereuropäische Geschichte 2013-12-13 Dorothea A. L. Martin, Professor of History Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Delgado, Grace: Making the Chinese Mexican. Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2012. ISBN 978-0-8047-7814-5; 304 S.; € 49,93. Look Lai, Walton; Chee-Beng, Tan (Hrsg.): The Chinese…
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The Chinese migration to the Latin America/Caribbean region is an understudied dimension of the Asian American experience.
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Looking for Co-presenters for 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference (Chicago, November) 2013-12-26 Kim Potowski, Associate Professor of Linguistics University of Illinois, Chicago I would like to submit a panel for the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference about language and the ways in which language (dialects, code-switching, etc.) reflects and enacts the identities of…
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Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 59, Number 4 (Fall 2013) pages 291-292 Carlton Floyd, Associate Professor of English University of San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,…
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Telling Multiracial Tales: An Autoethnography of Coming Out Home Qualitative Inquiry Volume 20, Number 1 (January 2014) pages 51-60 DOI: 10.1177/1077800413508532 Benny LeMaster Southern Illinois University, Carbondale What follows are experimental autoethnographic tales of ambiguous embodiment. The tales weave in and out of the text and work to articulate gender in unsuspecting spaces. Together, we…