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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Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas Fordham News: The Latest From Fordham University 2015-10-16 Patrick Verel Photograph by Patrick Verel In the United States, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Underground Railroad loom so large in the understandings of slavery that most Americans can almost be excused for thinking it’s a…
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How I Found My Way to Hapa The Mash-Up Americans 2010-10-06 Tanya Tarr Being mixed race can make people look at you like you’re a unicorn. We’re the changing face of America! We have a racial passport to anywhere! We can also grow up confused, and challenged on our identity on every front. Is half…
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True Colors: Charlie Villanueva and Others Explain the Afro-Latino Experience ESPN 2015-09-10 Charlie Villanueva knows that life in the United States for many still means being judged by one’s skin color, but he’s not shy about challenging such preconceived ideas, boldly asking if the public can know who he really is by just a surface…
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Multiethnic Adults Grapple With Questions of Identity KQED News San Francisco, California 2015-10-14 Adizah Eghan In his 1964 Nobel Prize lecture, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. described humanity as a “world house,” filled with family of all backgrounds who must somehow learn to live with each other. Within the borders of our countries, cities…
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Brown campus newspaper issues apology after racist columns The Associated Press 2015-10-07 Amy Anthony PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Brown University campus newspaper apologized Wednesday after publishing what it says were two “deeply hurtful” and racist columns. The Brown Daily Herald’s editorial board published an editor’s note saying it regretted the hurt caused by the…
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A Statement from a Collective of Multiracial and Biracial Students bluestockings magazine Monday, 2015-10-12 Multiracial and Biracial Students at Brown For further context, please see the bluestockings editors statement. Introduction We, a collective of multiracial and biracial students, write this statement to address the publication of a series of articles by the Brown Daily Herald,…