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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Women in TV 2015: Tracee Ellis Ross in ‘black-ish’ Elle 2015-01-08 Seth Plattner, Culture Editor This article appears in the February 2015 issue of ELLE magazine. Clones and copywriters. Journalists and sex scientists. Cult survivors and carnival acts. These actors fearlessly take on roles that are all over the map. So what do they have…
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To heal world, show solidarity with Jews of color, too J.: the Jewish news weekly of Northern California San Francisco, California 2015-01-08 Kim Carter Martinez Oakland, California My name is Kim. I am black, I am Jewish, and my life matters. For the last few months, our country has seen a movement growing from a…
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The New Creole Movement Jambalaya Magazine & Clothing 2015-01-08 Julia Dumas There is a movement brewing. It is a movement with a mission to reclaim Louisiana Creole culture. Many Louisianians have been scarred by a painful past full of racism and colorism. Darker people were banned from claiming Creole heritage, if unable to pass the…
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Season 2, Episode 11: Writer Thomas Chatterton Williams The Mixed Experience 2015-01-08 Heidi Durrow, Host We continue the second part of the season with writer Thomas Chatterton Williams author of Losing My Cool and the newly published essay in Virginia Quarterly Review “Black and Blue and Blond.” Listen to the episode here. Download the episode…
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Veterans to Remember: Parker David Robbins We’re History 2014-11-10 Ben Railton, Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of American Studies Fitchburg State University, Fitchburg, Massachusetts Thanks principally to the critical and popular success of the film Glory (1989), our collective memory of the Civil War includes African American soldiers (known in their era as United…
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Pharmacogenomics and the Biology of Race Myles Jackson, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science New York University The Huffington Post 2015-01-05 The numerous and impassioned responses to Nicholas Wade’s recently published Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History have once again reminded us of the complexity, ambiguity and perils of writing…
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Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ (Exclusive)
Gugu Mbatha-Raw to Star Opposite Matthew McConaughey in Gary Ross’ ‘Free State of Jones’ (Exclusive) The Wrap: Covering Hollywood 2014-01-06 Jeff Sneider, Film Reporter Scott Stuber and Jon Kilik are producing the Civil War tale for Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment Hot off a pair of acclaimed performances in “Beyond the Lights” and “Belle,” Gugu Mbatha-Raw…