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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The Invisible Line: A Secret History of Race in America – Daniel J. Sharfstein Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-06-26, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2014-06-27, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Daniel J. Sharfstein, Professor of Law Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Join author, Daniel J. Sharfstein for a discussion of his book and…
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Census Data Confusion, Manipulation, and Latinos of Mixed Ancestry or “Should Latino be a Race?” Presented at The Second Annual Mixed Heritage Conference University of California, Los Angeles 2014-04-16 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Multiracial Americans President Thomas Lopez delivers a talk on changing the Census categories to allow Latino to…
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Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context Crossing Borders, Bridging Generatons Brooklyn Historical Society June 2014 Renee Romano, Associate Professor of History Oberlin College Renee Romano teaches history at Oberlin College and she is the author of Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America (Harvard University Press, 2003), and co-editor of The Civil Rights Movement in…
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I’m Not White, But Nobody Can Ever Tell What Race I Am xoJane.com 2014-07-25 Casey Walker Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts I have to go through a “coming out” moment in every new relationship to explain my ethnicity. My skin is pale olive in the winter and a soft brown in the summer, and my hair…
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I get it. Being mixed race in a mono-racial society is tough. There still isn’t much room for multiplicity in our society. From race categories on forms, to Barack Obama being called the first “Black” president even as he was raised by his white grandparents, to people asking a mixed race person “what are you?”…
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Little White Lie [Philadelphia Premiere] Blackstar Film Festival Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-31-07 through 2014-08-03 International House Philadelphia 3701 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Telephone: 215-387-5125 2014-08-02, 15:10 EDT (Local Time) Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer Followed by Q&A with Lacey Schwartz and Mehret Mandefro moderated by: Yaba Blay, Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University,…