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: Anthropology
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Celebrating Afro-Venezuelan Heritage Global Exchange Reality Tour Blog 2013-12-13 The following post is written by Reality Tours communications intern William Jones Jr as he explores Afro-Venezuelan identity historically and in its current context. Visit Venezuela on a Reality Tour to learn more about the struggles, contributions, and successes of Afro-Venezuelans. History and Legacy Under the…
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Whiter Shades of Pale: “Coloring In” Machado de Assis and Race in Contemporary Brazil Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 3-24 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0046 Alex Flynn, Lecturer in Anthropology Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom Elena Calvo-González, Professor of Anthropology Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Marcelo Mendes de Souza Department of Comparative Literature…
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Drawing from exhaustive research in the Netherlands, Europe and the Americas, Altena offers illuminating new insights into mixed-marriage families as they were depicted in the arts and in news media; and how the families themselves in turn reacted to, and influenced those images. The author focuses on well-documented individuals and shows how they gained a…
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Biracial Girls Will Be Fine If Their Dolls Don’t Look Like Them The Root 2013-12-27 Jenée Desmond-Harris Race Manners: A rainbow of toys is great, but how kids live is much more important than how they play. “Hello. I’m wondering if you can offer some broad guidance before I head out to the malls for…
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Is Race a Fiction? Ideas with Paul Kennedy CBC Radio-Canada 2013-12-04 Paul Kennedy, Host Blood ties you to family, country and race. Should it? Watch a live panel discussion with Lawrence Hill, Priscila Uppal, Hayden King and Karina Vernon moderated by Ideas host Paul Kennedy. What happens to personal identity when race is removed as…
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Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality by Anita González (review) Latin American Music Review Volume 34, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2013 pages 288-291 DOI: 10.1353/lat.2013.0019 Alex E. Chávez, Visiting Assistant Professor Latin American and Latino Studies Program University of Illinois, Chicago Anita González, Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality. With photographs by George O. Jackson and…
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A Study of Tri-Racial Isolates in Eastern United States Human Heredity Volume 6, Number 3, 1956/1957 DOI: 10.1159/000150862 pages 410–412 C. J. Witkop National Institute of Dental Research, National Institutes of Health, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. There are known to exist in the eastern part of…