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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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey W. W. Norton & Company June 1999 208 pages 5.1 × 8 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31901-9 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a…
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Gorgeous Black-And-White Portraits Explore The Meaning Of Multiracial Identities The Huffington Post 2015-03-30 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor “I began this project because I recognized that I was part of a underrepresented group of people,” artist Samantha Wall explained in an email to HuffPost. “It’s difficult to talk about multiraciality with individuals who…
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New Book Explores Role of Race for First Lady Michelle Obama Time 2015-03-30 Maya Rhodan, Reporter Author paints the First Lady as the President’s rock, notes the impact her background would have on her future as the nation’s first black First Lady During her senior year at Princeton University, First Lady Michelle Obama couldn’t imagine…
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Redefining — by not defining — biracialism The Daily Illini: The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Tuesday, 2015-03-31 Audrey Majors, Opinions columnist Last week controversy arose over Japan’s 2015 Miss Universe contestant, Ariana Miyamoto, because she’s biracial— something critics, many of whom are Japanese, have taken issue with. Miyamoto has…
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Comedy Central® Names Trevor Noah as Next Host of “The Daily Show” Comedy Central® Press Release 2015-03-30 Press Contact Info: Renata Luczak Eve Kenny 31 Year-Old Comedian to Take the Helm Later This Year NEW YORK, March 30, 2015 – Trevor Noah has been selected to become the next host of the Emmy® and Peabody®…
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Trevor Noah to Succeed Jon Stewart on ‘The Daily Show’ The New York Times 2015-03-30 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter In December, Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian, made his debut as an on-air contributor on “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” offering his outsider’s perspective, as a biracial South African, on the United States. “I never…