Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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: Canada
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Minelle speaks with Canada’s current Parliamentary Poet Laureate George Elliot Clarke and poet and PhD student Adebe DeRango-Adem about the mentor-mentee relationship.
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Minelle speaks with Room magazine’s managing editor, Chelene Knight, about the local magazine and its volunteer collective.
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To celebrate Black History Month we profile the Hudson Bay Company’s Sir James Douglas
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Throughout my month here at open-book.ca I’ve been sharing my conversations with various members of the literary community. Our last conversation is with noted poet, Adebe DeRango-Adem. To learn more about her current collection, Terra Incognita please visit here or her Facebook page.
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I organized a panel of mixed-race ceramic sculpture artists whose work speaks to issues of race and identity titled “Paradox: Identity & Belonging” for NCECA’s 50th anniversary conference in Kansas City, Missouri, last spring. Fellow Canadian, Brendan Tang, as well as Americans Jennifer Datchuk and Nathan Murray joined me on stage.
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It’s February, and that means it’s Black History Month! Check out these four queer Black Canadian women authors whose books you should definitely have on your shelves.
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Ep.9 – Genetics and Identity Scientifica Radio: a CKUT radio science magazine CKUT 90.3 FM Montreal, Canada 2017-01-27 On today’s episode, Rackeb Tesfaye and Brïte Pauchet explore the link between genetics and identity. Can genetic DNA testing determine our identity? Are they overhyped? Amanda Morgan, a genetic counselling graduate student at McGill University, explains what genetic…
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Defined by mixed race The Globe & Mail 2017-01-23 Mckenzie Small Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Differences make you stand out, Mckenzie Small writes, and it’s something to be proud of She just keeps staring at me – as if I’m from another dimension – and then she asks the all-too-familiar question: “So what are you, exactly?” I…
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Statement by Joseph Boyden CNW: A Cision Company 2017-01-11 Joseph Boyden TORONTO, Jan. 11, 2017 /CNW/ – A few weeks ago, I found out that my 85-year-old mom had been contacted by a journalist who prodded her with pointed and personal questions about her heritage. Specifically, he asked her to prove how Indigenous she is.…
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The Boyden affair just got murkier: Salutin The Toronto Star 2017-01-13 Rick Salutin Celebrated author agrees to select interviews, insists he never embellished or lied about his heritage, but also offered platitudes versus confronting precise criticisms I found Joseph Boyden’s interview Wednesday on CBC — in a word rarely called for — unctuous. He surfaced…