Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
- 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
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Category: United States
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An explosive world-premiere commission by subversive American playwright Thomas Bradshaw, “Thomas and Sally” gets up close and personal with our country’s first prominent mixed-race family: Thomas Jefferson and his African American slave, Sally Hemings.
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In 1954, Jim Queen arrived at Montgomery Blair High School. The school was all white. He was not.
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Not long after the Baz Luhrman adaptation of the novel came out, I saw a theory floating around that Jay Gatsby could be read as a black man passing as a white man, and I thought that theory was pretty interesting and did some more research on it. I think reading the novel with that…
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The “Caucasia” author returns to her home ground: the personal and political dynamics of race.
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The transformation of the American nation into a multicultural society could result in a nation that voluntarily and openly accepts the benefits of contributing traditions, values, philosophies and behaviors. This trend, though, is struggling against a social structure that has been perceived to be grounded upon a dominant culture and value system.
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Senna’s latest novel, the slick and highly enjoyable “New People,” makes keen, icy farce of the affectations of the Brooklyn black faux-bohemia in which Maria, a distracted graduate student, lives with her fiancé among the new “Niggerati.” Maria and Khalil Mirsky—the latter’s name a droll amalgamation of his black and white Jewish parentage—are the “same…
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“I feel my role as a writer is to complicate, to leave more questions, to destabilize whatever seems set in stone,” says novelist Danzy Senna.
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“New People” is a paean to the psychosocial complexities of being racially mixed, and, as a result, color-lines, passing, and double-consciousness are everywhere.
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Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson discusses her compelling life story with Scotland’s Makar, the poet and novelist Jackie Kay.