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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The weird, strange narrative of Rachel Dolezal The Remix WHYY-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-06-17 James Peterson, Host What determines your race? Is it about genetics or cultural identification? The curious case of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who has been passing for black, has been met with surprise, outrage and confusion. Dolezal, former president of the Spokane…
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Pets, Playmates, Pedagogues (From Chapter Four of Oreo) The Offing: A Los Angeles Review of Books Channel 2015-07-06 Fran Ross Oreo, Fran Ross’s ground-breaking satire, was originally published in 1974. It is being re-issued this week by New Directions, with an introduction by Danzy Senna and a foreword by Harryette Mullen. Mat Johnson of NPR…
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For once it’s not just black and white. In this compelling chronicle of his journey through life as a multicultural and multiethnic American, Teja Arboleda uniquely and personally challenges institutionalized notions of race, culture, ethnicity, and class.
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A pioneering, dazzling satire about a biracial black girl from Philadelphia searching for her Jewish father in New York City
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The Divine Auditor Prarie Schooner: Stories, Poems, Essays, and Reviews since 1926 Volume 87, Issue 2 (2013 Summer) Sarah Valentine, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois It is still dark when my cell phone begins to buzz. When I flip it open, my mother’s voice comes through a connection often interrupted by…
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Rag Radio 2015-07-03 – Historian Victoria Bynum on Southern History, Racial Violence & the Confederate Flag Rag Radio: Driving in the Left Lane! Cutting-edge alternative journalism, politics, and culture in the spirit of the Sixties underground press. KOOP 91.7 FM, Austin Texas Friday, 2015-07-03, 19:00-20:00Z (14:00-15:00 CDT) Thorne Dreyer, Host Victoria Bynum, Emeritus Professor of…
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Reclaiming Jewish Identity: An Aboriginal People of the Middle East The Huffington Post 2015-06-07 Binyamin Arazi Starting this September, after decades of lobbying efforts by Arab-American organizations, the United States Census Bureau will begin testing a new category for Americans of Middle Eastern and North African origin. In conjunction with this new listing, no less…
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When I Was White The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-07-06 Sarah Valentine, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Sarah Valentine as a girl, with her two brothers (Source: Family photo) Rachel Dolezal’s recent unmasking as a white woman living as black sparked a debate about the legitimacy of “transracial”…
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I am interested in black and mixed-race dancers, ballerinas in particular, because I see almost none in the major classical companies. Like me, the gay boy who didn’t want to be Prince Siegfied but Odette, they too are “other.” Now, when I am teaching “swan arms” to my students I think of Darci Kistler and…