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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Category: United States
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Free State of Jones Capsizes Lost Cause Myths Process: A Blog For American History 2016-07-12 Matthew E. Stanley, Assistant Professor of History Albany State University, Albany, Georgia Reconstruction is perhaps the least understood period in American history, a distinction that has been both perpetuated by and reflected in popular culture since the late nineteenth century.…
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Alabama’s Anti-Miscegenation Statutes Alabama Review Volume 68, Number 4, October 2015 pages 345-365 DOI: 10.1353/ala.2015.0033 Jeremy W. Richter, Associate Webster, Henry, Lyons, Bradwell, Cohan & Speagle, P.C., Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Birmingham, Alabama In the immediate aftermath of the civil war and, more specifically, the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, various southern states began…
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Uncanny Compulsions: Automatism, Trauma, and Memory in Of One Blood Callaloo Volume 39, Number 2, Spring 2016 pages 473-492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2016.0076 Joshua Lam, Adjunct Professor, American Literature and Composition State University of New York, Buffalo In recent years, critics have begun to frame slavery in the United States in terms of haunting and trauma studies,…
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Meet Edith Cumbo, Nation Builder Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-07-24 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion last weekend July 15-17 in Williamsburg, Virginia. One of the reasons we chose Williamsburg was because Colonial Williamsburg features a historical figure – Edith Cumbo – who…
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A Mixed-Race, Mixed-Marriage Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-05-06 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. My great-great grandparents Edward Biggs and Florence Cumbo were both listed as Colored on their 1890 marriage license. So why am I classifying their union as a mixed marriage? It is because Edward Biggs was born…
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Painful but necessary: Why I stopped putting off the racism talk with my daughter CBC News 2016-07-01 Samantha Kemp-Jackson Toronto, Ontario, Canada Demonstrators stand in front of the East Baton Rouge Parish City Hall doors on Monday. (Reuters) Talk opens door to a world where ignorance is not bliss and racism must be confronted head-on…