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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Times Fluid, Mobile and Ambivalent: Constructing Racial & Personal Identity in James McBride’s The Color of Water International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature Volume 4, Number 5 (2015) pages 63-71 DOI: 10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.4n.5p.63 Yuan-Chin Chang Department of Applied English Studies China University of Technology, Wunshan District, Taipei City 116, Taiwan James McBride’s memoir The…
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Hispanic Or Latino? A Guide For The U.S. Presidential Campaign National Public Radio 2015-08-27 Lulu Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent My parents are Cuban and Panamanian. I grew up in Miami. I travel broadly in Latin America but reside in Brazil, which speaks Portuguese, not Spanish. So what am I? This may seem an irrelevant question…
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Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children Da Capo Press 2003 224 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780756793401 Paperback ISBN: 9780738209500 Donna Jackson Nakazawa “Am I black or white or am I American?” “Why don’t my eyes look like yours?” “Why do people always call attention to my ‘different’ hair?” Helping…
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Podcast #75: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith on Race, Writing, and Relationships The NYPL Podcast The New York Public Library New York, New York 2015-08-25 Tracy O’Neill, Social Media Curator There are few authors as smart, powerful, and visionary as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Zadie Smith. Adichie’s Americanah won the 2013 National Book Critics…
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Writer Jesmyn Ward reflects on survival since Katrina PBS NewsHour 2015-08-24 Gwen Ifill, Co-Anchor & Managing Editor Jesmyn Ward, Associate Professor of English Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana After writer and Tulane University professor Jesmyn Ward survived Hurricane Katrina while staying at her grandmother’s house, she wrote “Salvage the Bones,” an award-winning novel about a…
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Moor, Mulata, Mulatta: Sentimentalism, Racialization, and Benevolent Imperialism in Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists Volume 2, Number 2, Fall 2014 pages 301-329 DOI: 10.1353/jnc.2014.0021 Maria A. Windell, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Boulder “Moor, Mulata, Mulatta” argues that Mary Peabody Mann’s Juanita (1887) imports U.S. sentimental abolitionism to…
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Seeking Biracial Participants for Study on Social Experiences Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Department of Psychology 2015-08-05 Analia Albuja Multiracial and multicultural populations have grown tremendously in recent years, yet their unique social experiences remain understudied. The present study is being conducted by Analia Albuja, a graduate student in social psychology and attempts to fill…
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Now casting nationwide for a dynamic and charismatic, blended, interracial family! Kinetic Content (part of Red Arrow Entertainment Group) Los Angeles, California 2015-08-12 Angelo Ierace, Development Producer Kinetic Content, a television production company in Los Angeles, California, is currently developing docu-series that will feature the day-to-day life of one blended, interracial family. If you and…