Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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
- Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100
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Category: United States
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Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic…
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Tales of African-American History Found in DNA The New York Times 2016-05-27 Carl Zimmer The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys. The first brought hundreds of thousands of Africans to the southern United States as slaves. The second, the Great Migration, began around 1910 and sent six million African-Americans…
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LA poets document the city in ‘Coiled Serpent’ anthology Los Angeles Daily News 2016-03-25 Richard Guzman, Arts and Entertainment Reporter Long Beach Press Telegram As students take part in a guitar workshop inside his Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Sylmar, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez grabs a copy of the latest book…
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What are you: Engaging Parents of Multiracial Children in Preschool The Huffington Post 2016-05-27 Makai Kellogg, Lead Teacher School for Friends, Washington, D.C. “If you can go shopping and be assured that you will not be followed or harassed, step forward.” There was no more space left. I rushed to the door and opened it…
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The Story in My DNA The Huffington Post 2016-05-24 Hope Ferguson Like many African Americans, I grew up not knowing where I came from. There was no “old country” for us. Obviously, I knew that most slaves were brought from Central and West Africa. I heard family stories about being part Native American – that…
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Knowledge Session: Who Was Lena Horne? I Am Hip-Hop 2015-07-07 Rishma Dhaliwal Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father, Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who worked in the gambling trade, left the family when Lena was three. Her mother, Edna, was an actress…