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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That girl doesn’t have an ass.” The words hurled through the thick, humid air as if lobbed by a knife-thrower and struck me for reasons I couldn’t quite place at the time, reasons deeply rooted in my struggle to navigate my identity and subjectivity.
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Don’t Call Me the ‘Black Seth Rogen’ The New York Times 2016-02-27 Colton Dunn Richie Pope Los Angeles — YEARS ago, I was in a cast in what’s called a “network showcase.” Hollywood does tons of these types of showcase shows. The networks bring in young actors to create material and perform for agents, managers…
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Speaker: Allyson Hobbs Colgate University 27 Persson Hall 13 Oak Drive Hamilton, New York 13346 Monday, 2016-03-21, 16:15-18:15 EDT (Local Time) Contact: Diane English 315-228-7511 Guest speaker Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Stanford University will give a lecture entitled: “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life”, Monday,…
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A Conversation With Latinos on Race The New York Times 2016-02-29 Joe Brewster Blair Foster Michèle Stephenson Last year we set out to make a series of short documentaries that we hoped would foster a discussion about race relations in the United States. To date the series has focused on the personal nuances of systemic…
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Thank You, Melissa Harris-Perry The Nation 2016-02-29 Dave Zirin Melissa Harris-Perry (You Tube) The most diverse, intellectually bracing show on network news was treated as expendable, and its host would not have it. She and her show will be sorely missed. This weekend, a show that mattered to its audience as few programs on the…
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On Creoles, Colorism and Confronting our Triggers Black and Blewish 2016-02-13 TaRessa Stovall By now everyone with media access knows of (and likely has an opinion about) Beyoncé’s new “Formation” video and Super Bowl halftime performance. She dropped the video on an otherwise slow news Saturday, February 6, and on the very next day, she…
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SPEECH OF Hon. Samuel S. Cox. ON MISCEGENATION AND SLAVERY: The Daily Ohio Statesman Columbus, Ohio 1864-02-23 Delivered in the House of Congress on Wednesday, February 17th, 1864. The Bill, To establish a Bureau of Freedmen’s Affairs, being under consideration, Mr. Cox had the floor and proceeded to speak. He first discussed some constitutional points that…
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Charles W. Chesnutt’s Stenographic Realism MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S. Volume 40, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 48-68 Mark Sussman Hunter College, City University of New York Speaking before a meeting of the Ohio Stenographer’s Association on 28 August 1889, Charles W. Chesnutt declared: “The invention of phonography deserves to rank, and does rank,…