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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Race had been a source of confusion throughout my childhood, and I wondered if the original purpose of Topsy-Turvy dolls might have been to help mixed-race children understand their identities. As an object of play, the dolls might have enabled these children to grasp the paradox of who they were and understand their relationships with…
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Georgia Louise Harris Brown (June 12, 1918 – September 21, 1999) Pioneering Women of American Architecture October 2017 Anat Falbel University of Campinas, Brazil Roberta Washington, Principal Roberta Washington Architects, New York, New York Georgia Louise Harris Brown (1918–1999), a pioneering African American architect practicing in Chicago and Brazil from the 1940s to the 1990s,…
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To this day, you will find no official data on persons like me of mixed Latino and non-Latino identity. I’ve coined the term “LOMA” for Latinx of Mixed Ancestry to describe this community. Some studies suggest that as many as a quarter of Latino-identified people in this country could actually identify as LOMA if given…
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Does this fight or fuel racism?
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The Other Mother, A Novel Counterpoint Press (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2022-05-03 432 pages 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 9781640095045 Rachel M. Harper An “extraordinary” page-turning generational saga about a young man’s search for a parent he never knew, and a moving portrait of motherhood, race, and the truths we hide in the…
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A dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro-Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond—and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms
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Even as a child, I balked at the stereotype of the Tragic Mulatto.
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‘Moral electricity’: Melvil-Bloncourt and the trans-Atlantic struggle for abolition and equal rights
Little known to historians, the Guadeloupean-born antislavery and equal rights activist Sainte-Suzanne Melvil-Bloncourt exemplified the complex trans-Atlantic networks forged for the abolitionist cause across the nineteenth century.