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
- 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
- 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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Putting racism, white supremacy, and white privilege in context Chimes: The official student newspaper of Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan 2015-12-11 Joseph Kuilema, Professor of Social Work A group of students went to write positive messages on snow on cars following the racist comments that were written. Photo Credit Katelyn Bosch On Sunday, Nov. 22,…
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Play means to help people of mixed race find sense of belonging MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2015-12-15 Marianne Combs, Arts and Culture Reporter “Purple Cloud,” written by Jessica Huang and directed by Randy Reyes, looks at three generations of hapa, or mixed race, Chinese immigrants as they search to find a place where they…
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Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’ The Guardian 2015-12-13 Chris McGreal, Senior Writer Guardian US Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks…
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First Baptist unveils historic marker The Tennesseean Nashville, Tennessee 2015-12-09 Jennifer Easton If people of faith go to First Baptist Church on East Winchester Street looking for a sign, they’ll find it. Sumner County’s oldest known African-American church celebrated another milestone Dec. 6 with the dedication of a historic marker commemorating the 150-year-old church’s early…
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Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States
Ghost Stories: Allyson Hobbs uncovers the fascinating history of racial passing in the United States Chapter 16: a community of Tennessee writers, readers & passersby 2015-12-11 Aram Goudsouzian, Professor of History University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee In A Chosen Exile, Allyson Hobbs analyzes how and why black people passed as white throughout American history. An…
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Book Talk – A Chosen Exile: The History of Racial Passing National Civil Rights Museum: At the Lorraine Motel 450 Mulberry Street Memphis, Tennesee 38103 2015-12-17, 18:00-20:00 CST (Local Time) Allyson Hobbs, a professor of History at Stanford University, has written a remarkable book entitled [A] Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in America.…
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Mariage et métissage dans les sociétés coloniales: Amériques, Afrique et Iles de l’Océan Indien (XVIe–XXe–siècles) (Marriage and misgeneration [miscegenation?] in colonial societies: Americas, Africa and islands of the Indian ocean (XVIth–XXth centuries)) Peter Lang 2015 357 pages Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0343-1605-7 DOI: 10.3726/978-3-0352-0295-3 Edited by: Guy Brunet, Vice President Société de Démographie Historique, Paris, France also:…