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
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- 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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I’m mixed race. That doesn’t mean you can ask me, “What are you?” The Tempest 2016-05-21 Maya Williams I’m not your exotic half-breed toy, so don’t treat me, or anyone else, like one. “Which parent is white?” many have asked me. That question tends to bother me as much as the “What are you?” question,…
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On Becoming Black, Becoming White and Being Human: Rachel Dolezal and the Fluidity of Race Truthdig 2015-06-18 Channing G. Joseph Library of Congress For decades, no one knew my cousin Ernest Torregano was black. At least, no one who mattered in his new life. Not the clients or associates of the prominent bankruptcy law firm…
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This web series asks black women around the world to explain what beauty means to them Fusion 2016-06-02 Tahirah Hairston Courtesy of Un-Ruly They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that’s not the impression you’d get from flipping through a fashion magazine. The images we see in mainstream media every day…
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#myLovingDay: How the Lovings’ trials paved the way for today’s multiracial families The Los Angeles Times 2016-06-03 Michelle Maltais Mildred and Richard Loving, convicted in Virginia of marrying while interracial. (Associated Press) I like to say that I am because of Loving. Mildred and Richard Loving. In the early 1970s when my parents met, the…
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Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1190852 Remi Joseph-Salisbury University of Leeds Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority, by Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xv + 241 pp., £29.95 (paperback), ISBN-13 978-1138021938 Mixed-race youth and schooling offers a welcome contribution to a sparse…
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Philanthropy, Jobs for African Youth, Racial Passing Top of Mind with Julie Rose BYU Radio 2016-05-25 Julie Rose, Host …Racial Passing (52:22) Guest: Allyson Hobbs, PhD, Assistant Professor of American History at Stanford University, Author of “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” A 1949 film called “Lost Boundaries” tells the…
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James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. James Boggs was the son of an Alabama sharecropper who came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union leader. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied…
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Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…
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See Logic Talk Biracial Identity, Anime Influence Rolling Stone 2016-04-20 Brittany Spanos, Staff Writer Rapper discusses prejudice, upcoming albums and ‘The Incredible True Story’ ahead of co-headlining tour with G-Eazy “When it comes to being black and white, and the things that I’ve experienced, it was just a personal journey to look in the mirror…