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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Growing Up White Until a Family Secret Revealed She Was Not The Root 2015-03-22 Genetta M. Adams, Senior Editor In the documentary Little White Lie, filmmaker Lacey Schwartz spins a compelling story about embracing her racial identity. Lacey Schwartz grew up as a white, Jewish girl in the predominantly white community of Woodstock, N.Y., raised…
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Little White Lie Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Monday, 2015-03-23, 22:00 EDT (21:00 CDT) (check schedule here) Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — despite the open questions from those around…
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Family Secret And Cultural Identity Revealed In ‘Little White Lie’ Morning Edition National Public Radio 2015-03-23 Michele Norris, Host and Special Correspondent Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a white Jewish family in Woodstock, New York, believing she was white. Schwartz learns she’s bi-racial as she prepares to attend college. Listen to the story here.…
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If you haven’t heard of Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, the 24-year-old is making jaws drop in the music industry. Armed with ferocious vocals, passionate lyrics and a dynamic presence — on and off stage — Howard as the front woman of the Alabama Shakes is bringing rock and blues back from the grave…
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6 things I wish people understood about being biracial Vox 2015-03-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Race, Law, and Politics Reporter According to the results of a DNA test I took recently, my ancestors on my father’s side are mostly from West Africa (via Arkansas), and the ones on my mom’s side come from Europe. When strangers inquire…
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Fifteen Projects Selected for Tribeca Film Institute All Access Grants Filmaker 2015-03-19 Scott Macaulay, Editor-in-chief Fifteen works — scripted, documentary and interactive — were selected today for the Tribeca Film Institute‘s All Access program, which offers grant monies and other non-monetary support to projects by creators from statistically underrepresented communities. The projects were chosen from…
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New Orleans Loving Festival 2015-03-21 The New Orleans Loving Festival™ is a Multiracial Community Celebration and Film Festival that challenges racism through outreach and education. The “Loving Festival” was inspired by the actions of a Hammond, Louisiana Justice of the Peace who refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple in 2009. The…
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Scholar’s debut novel ties black, Native-American history The Detroit Free Press 2015-03-22 Cassandra Spratling Tiya Miles got it honest. Straight from her grandmother’s garden. That knack for telling stories that pull at your heartstrings. “I’m one of those people who had a storytelling grandma,” says Miles. “We’d be in the garden or snapping peas on…