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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This interdisciplinary investigation argues that since the 1990s, discourses about mixed-race heritage in the United States have taken the shape of a veritable literary genre, here termed “memoir of the search.”
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All mixed up: Multiracial students at CVHS say they don’t fit in one box The Upstream: The Student-Run News Site of Carnegie Vanguard High School Houston, Texas 2022-02-02 Sofia Hegstrom, Contributing Writer Noah Mohamed, Staff Writer Senior Xen Villareal identifies as mixed-race indigenous and is one-quarter Black. Photo courtesy of Xen Villareal My eyebrows furrowed…
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Mitski Miyawaki, who performs with her band under her first name, grew up in a biracial, multicultural household. During her childhood, Mitski lived in Japan, Malaysia, China, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of Congo. But it wasn’t until she returned to the U.S. that she had a racial designation imposed on her.
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The critical crossfire Ms. Gu has faced has implications that go far beyond the Olympic slopes, Chinese Americans say. And some see themselves in the duality she has embraced.
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The U.S. census sees Middle Eastern and North African people as white. Many don’t National Public Radio 2022-02-17 Hansi Lo Wang, Correspondent, National Desk Federal government standards require the U.S. census to count people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa as white. But a new study finds many people of MENA descent…
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On Reading Dialect in Harper’s ‘Iola Leroy’ The Dickens Project2021-12-08 A roundtable conversation with Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Eric Gardner (Saginaw Valley State University), Jennifer James (George Washington University), Derrick R. Spires (Cornell University), and Richard Yarborough (University of California, Los Angeles). We staged this conversation with expert scholars in nineteenth-century African American…
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THEY are two of the most in-demand people in showbiz and Beyonce and Zendaya are now in talks to team up.
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Kelly Curtis is first Black athlete to represent Team USA in skeleton