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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We are Afro-Mexican|”I am Blaxican” Life as Karen: Just setting my soul free. 2015-03-12 Karen Salinas This week I decided to interview my dad; my inspiration for this project. The interview was conducted in Spanish, the English version is translated! Esta semana decidi entrevistar a mi papa; la inspiracion para este proyecto. K: ¿De donde…
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‘A Chosen Exile:’ Examining African Americans Passing As White In America [VIDEO] NewsOne Now NewsOne 2015-02-27 Author Allyson Hobbs joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss her new book, “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” Hobbs an assistant professor of American History at Stanford University told Martin that when…
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San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) July 2014 Amy De Simone, Research Consultant Kansas State University by Robert J. Chandler. University of Oklahoma Press, February 2014. 264 p. ill. ISBN 9780806144108 (cl.), $36.95. More than just a book about one man, San Francisco Lithographer: African…
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Finding Grafton Tyler Brown, African American Artist Keith Skinner: Writer: Renegade Image: Fiction, memoir, travel & essays 2014-05-25 Keith Skinner I had never heard of Grafton Tyler Brown before. I was just trying to develop a character for my historical novel-in-progress, The Relentless Harvest. The Search for a Character It all started with a desire…
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Was Elliot Rodger Asian American? Reappropriate.co 2015-03-10 Jenn Reappropriate For weeks following the Isla Vista shooting, killer Elliot Rodger was described in mainstream media as a young White man. This was a convenient narrative: Rodger was seen as yet another example of the maligned young vengeance-seeking White male outcast (like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold…
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What was it like raising three biracial children? WBEZ 91.5 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-06 Bill Healy Rosa Ramirez was in basic training in the Army, when she came across a girl in her barracks with red hair and blue eyes. “What kind of blood do you have?” Ramirez asked her. “Do you see the world blue?”…