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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While Trump Won York County, Pa., Republican Cal Weary Backed Clinton Morning Edition National Public Radio 2016-12-15 Steve Inskeep catches up with Cal Weary, an ex-art teacher from York, who spoke about race and politics as part of the York Project in 2008. Weary, an African-American, is a registered Republican. Download the story (00:05:34) here.
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In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art.
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When Labels Don’t Matter: George Herriman and Krazy Kat The Beat 2016-12-14 Heidi MacDonald, Editor-In-Chief We’ve been writing a bit about Michael Tisserand’s comprehensive new biography of George Herriman, Krazy: A Life in Black and White, but last night I got to hear him talk about it at one of the stops on his mini…
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The people running the media are the problem Nieman Lab 2016-12-13 Matt Waite, Founder, Drone Journalism Lab; Professor of Journalism University of Nebraska This month, I spent a week surrounded by bright, well-meaning journalism and tech thinkers. Session after session, day after day, conversations kept coming back to these questions: How do we restore trust…
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On 5 June 1934, about a year and half after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich, the leading lawyers of Nazi Germany gathered at a meeting to plan what would become the Nuremberg Laws, the centrepiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi race regime. The meeting was an important one, and a stenographer was present…
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‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’: Fiction by an Author Who Died Young Book Review The New York Times 2016-12-09 Morgan Jerkins WHATEVER HAPPENED TO INTERRACIAL LOVE? Stories By Kathleen Collins 175 pp. Ecco/HarperCollins Publishers. Paper, $15.99. Kathleen Collins Credit Douglas Collins Kathleen Collins’s short story collection, “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?” opens with a monologue.…
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How Kathleen Collins’s Daughter Kept Her Late Mother’s Career Alive Vogue 2016-09-05 Nina Lorez Collins Nina Collins in a Karen Walker dress. Photographed by Ryan Pfluger, Vogue, September 2016 A struggling filmmaker whose life was cut short by illness, Kathleen Collins has a soaring career since her daughter reopened her archive. Ten years ago, in…
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Black-ish Recap: The Bunny Magnet Vulture 2016-12-01 Nichole Perkins It’s been a while since we’ve had such a perfect episode of Black-ish, but “Being Bow-racial” was worth the wait. Junior’s [Marcus Scribner]white girlfriend sends Bow [Tracee Ellis Ross] on the sort of identity crisis she hasn’t had since college. She narrates, giving us a much-needed…
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Kathleen Collins’s ‘Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?’ Books of The Times The New York Times 2016-11-29 Dwight Garner Kathleen Collins, Elizabeth Alexander (fore.), Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? (New York: Ecco, 2016) When the filmmaker, playwright and fiction writer Kathleen Collins died of breast cancer in 1988, at 46, she left behind a wide body…