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
- 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
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The Monoracial Millennium (a parody): Rethinking Mixed Race in the Age of Obama Medium 2016-12-18 Gino M. Pellegrini “The Four Races” from Le Tour de la France par duex enfants (1877) by G. Bruno It sucks to wake up and realize that you’re back out of style — viewed as a promising development in one decade, viewed as an…
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Where Has All the Loving Gone? A Review of the New Film, ‘Loving’ African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-11-27 Peter Cole, Professor of History Western Illinois University A new film about the Southern working class couple whose love and dedication broke the back of anti-miscegenation laws across the nation arrives just in time. Released…
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Beacon Goes to the Movies: “Loving” and the History of White Supremacy Beacon Broadside: A Project of Beacon Press 2016-12-15 Ayla Zuraw-Friedland, Editorial Assistant When publicity assistant Perpetua Charles and senior editor Joanna Green first began planning a staff trip to see the film Loving in celebration of Beacon’s forthcoming book on the same topic…
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A Comic’s Secret Southern Story Below The Line Garden & Gun 2016-12-13 CJ Lotz A panel from “Krazy Kat.” Courtesy Krazy Before “The Far Side,” “Calvin and Hobbes,” or even Mickey Mouse, one cartoon stole the show. From 1913 to 1944, a panel called “Krazy Kat” ran in newspapers across the country and counted “Peanuts” creator…
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Feeling Cosmopolitan: Strategic Empathy in Charles W. Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States) Published online: 2016-12-10 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlw046 Alexa Weik von Mossner, Assistant Professor University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria “By modern research the unity of the human race has been proved,” asserts Charles W. Chesnutt in “The Future American” (122).…
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The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson, and the Colored World of Cedric Dover [Silkey Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 822-823 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw452 Sarah L. Silkey, Associate Professor of History Lycoming College, Williamsport, Pennsylvania The Prism of Race: W. E. B. Du…
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Good riddance to RU’s Powell Hall The Roanoke Times Roanoke, Virginia 2010-09-21 Christina Nuckols, Editorial Page Editor One can, if optimistically predisposed to believe in the inherent honesty and good-natured character of people, accept the story of why Radford University’s arts and music building still bore the name of John Powell until last week. One…
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That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia [Smithers Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 742-743 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw364 That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia By Arica L.…