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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Category: United States
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Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision Cosponsored by the Center for African American Studies and the Program in Law and Public Affairs 102 Jones Hall Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey Monday, 2013-12-09, 12:00-13:20 EST (Local Time) Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner…
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Prince George’s Political Duo, Jolene and Glenn Ivey Focus on Family AFRO Prince George’s County News 2013-10-16 Zenitha Prince, Special to the AFRO He’s a former two-term state’s attorney for Prince George’s County who is now a partner in the prestigious K Street law firm of Leftwich & Ludaway. She’s the chairman of the Prince…
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Ivey describes herself as ‘Trayvon Martin’s mom’ The Baltimore Sun 2013-10-14 Erin Cox (Lloyd Fox / Baltimore Sun) Gansler’s running mate is first African-American woman to seek lieutenant governor post After Del. Jolene Ivey told a Baltimore crowd she hopes to be Maryland’s first African-American female lieutenant governor, she discussed what it means to be…
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United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) describes her mode as elegiac. Although the loss of her murdered mother informs each book, Trethewey’s range of forms and subjects is wide.
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Louisiana Creole Literature: A Historical Study University Press of Mississippi 2013-10-17 256 pages 6 x 9 inches, bibliography, index Hardback ISBN: 9781617039102 Catharine Savage Brosman, Professor Emerita of French Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana Louisiana Creole Literature is a broad-ranging critical reading of belles lettres—in both French and English—connected to and generally produced by the…
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Over the past fifteen years in the United States, there has emerged a concerted push to reclassify people with one Black and one white parent as biracial. Advocates of this biracial project seek to have people of mixed parentage (PMP) recognized as a distinct, biracial race. They maintain that a biracial identity is more mentally…
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American Sons & Daughters: Mixed Race, Identity in Southern California KCET Television Burbank, California 2013-12-04 Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside This is how we began. I looked out at the 300 faces before me and said, “How many of you in this classroom are often asked, in a bar or…
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‘Mixed Race Stereotypes in South African and American Literature’: A Reading Denison University A. Blair Knapp Hall Room 201 300 Ridge Road Granville, Ohio 43023 Thursday, 2013-12-05, 16:30 EST (Local Time) The Women’s Studies Program welcomes Diana Mafe. The Women’s Studies Program welcomes Diana Mafe reading from her new book, Mixed Race Stereotypes in South…