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
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- 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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Today, this hyper-sexualization and fetishization of mixed race people has unfortunately become the norm.
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Rhonda Fils-Aimé was adopted by a white family as a baby, and her biological father, Philippe, had no idea
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A new, fully restored edition of the essential Canadian classic.
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‘I spend a lot of time looking at my children and wondering to myself what their skin tone means in 2019’
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The dirty little secret of my New American family
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Authors Graham Reynolds and Wanda Robson (Viola’s sister) look beyond the theatre incident and provide new insights into her life. They detail not only her act of courage in resisting the practice of racial segregation in Canada, but also her extraordinary achievement as a pioneer African Canadian businesswoman.
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Canadian banknote tops designs from Switzerland, Norway, Russia, Solomon Islands
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I’ve spent thousands of dollars trying to turn my hair into anything but what it is: black and curly
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Canada’s history is bicultural, Indigenous, and multilingual, and these characteristics have given risen to a number of strategies used by our writers to code racially mixed characters. This book examines contemporary Canadian literature and drama in order to tease out some of those strategies and the social and cultural factors that inform them.