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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Yvonne Chouteau, Native American Ballerina, Dies at 86 The New York Times 2016-01-29 Jack Anderson Yvonne Chouteau, one of the five celebrated Oklahoma ballerinas with an American Indian background, in a 1963 photo. Credit Jack Mitchell/Getty Images Yvonne Chouteau, a former principal dancer of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo who emerged as one of…
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Meet the New Student Activists The New York Times 2016-02-01 As told to Abby Ellin Young African-Americans and their allies are demanding change, leading people of all backgrounds to talk about issues that have lain dormant for decades. What do they want? Inclusion and representation — now. Here, seven students talk about the problems, the…
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Review ‘A Ballerina’s Tale’ follows Misty Copeland’s incredible rise in the ballet world The Los Angeles Times 2016-02-08 Mary McNamara, Contact Reporter Misty Copeland in the documentary “A Ballerina’s Tale.” (Oskar Landi / Sundance Selects) If you think #OscarsSoWhite, consider the world of elite ballet. And if you want to understand why the current conversation…
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A Ballerina’s Tale By Nelson George | in Dance Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Premieres 2016-02-08 Few dancers reach the highest levels of classical ballet; of that few only a fraction are black women. Against the odds, Misty Copeland has made history by becoming the first African American principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet…
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Jay Smooth: The Ill Doctrine, Underground Railroad & Disenfranchised cheese puffs The Katie Halper Show 2016-01-20 Katie Halper, Host On our first episode of the Live Katie Halper Show I front of an audience we talk to Jay Smooth, founder and host of The Underground Railroad and of the Ill Doctrine video series. His videos…
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Episode 16: The Value of Diversity Inflection Point: Conversations with women changing the status quo 2015-09-24 Lauren Schiller, Host Companies are now paying consultants to increase the diversity of their workforce, with an eye on innovation and the bottom line. But is that the only motivation businesses should be considering? We’ll talk with Joelle Emerson,…
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When people think of famous Latina women, Jennifer Lopez or Sofia Vergara come to mind. Not Zoe Saldana or Rosario Dawson…
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I thought I was a gorgeous kid until I learned I was just ‘pretty, for a black girl’ The Guardian 2016-02-04 Rebecca Carroll My white birthmother told me that the idea that I was gorgeous was a fiction inflicted upon me out of a sense of white liberal guilt When I was a little girl,…
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I’m protective of my blackness because I had to find it myself The Guardian 2015-11-12 Rebecca Carroll I was dogged in my determination to evolve outside the narrow margins of the small white world of my beginning and into another more racially familiar one I spent the first 20 years of my life internalizing white…