Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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.
about
Category: United States
-
A hysterically funny debut novel about discovering where you come from—even if you have to lie to get there.
-
New mixed-race student group holds first meeting North by Northwestern 2013-10-01 Julia Clark-Riddell North by Northwestern is Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication, updated around the clock with stories about campus and culture. Wildcat Connection lists exactly 100 student groups in the “cultural” category, from the African Students Association to the Women in Leadership program,…
-
Descendants of Norwich slave, owner meet Norwich Bulletin Norwich, Connecticut 2012-03-29 Adam Benson Norwich, Conn.—When descendants of Norwich slave Guy Drock and the man who owned him met for the first time Thursday, they weren’t sure what would happen. Grant Hayter-Menzies’ fifth-generation great-grandfather, Capt. Benejah Bushnell, owned Drock for a decade in the mid-1700s in…
-
“Slavery, Freedom and Reunion in a Colonial Connecticut Town” with Grant Hayter-Menzies, Daryl D’Angelo and Donald Roddy Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-10-03, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-10-04, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host In June 1759, Norwich, Connecticut businessman Benajah Bushnell sold Guy Drock, a slave of African ancestry, to Sarah Powers,…
-
Complicating Constructions: Race, Ethnicity, Hybridity in American Texts University of Washington Press 2007-06-15 352 pages notes, bibliog., index 6 x 9 in. Paperback ISBN: 9780295988351 Hardcover ISBN-10: 0295986816; ISBN-13: 978-0295986814 eBook ISBN: 9780295800745 Edited by David S. Goldstein, Senior Lecturer, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences University of Washington, Bothell Audrey B. Thacker, Lecturer in…
-
Antlers, glass mark exhibit of California sculptor in College Park Gazette.Net: Maryland Community News Online Gaithersburg, Maryland 2013-09-12 Virginia Terhune, Staff writer Always looking for new materials, Los Angeles sculptor Alison Saar heard that an organization she knew needed to sell a pile of antlers cast off by deer in Montana. So she bought 200…
-
Given evidence of BiDil’s efficacy, but little evidence that race mattered to its efficacy, the FDA should have made one of two decisions: reject the request for race-specific approval or approve BiDil for all heart failure patients, regardless of race. Instead, the FDA put race at the center of its decision, sparking controversy and paving…
-
An Inconvenient Truth: “Hispanic” is an ethnic origin, not a “race” National Institute for Latino Policy, Inc. 2013-08-24 Nancy López, Guest Commentator and Associate Professor of Sociology University of New Mexico Kenneth Prewitt’s provocative August 21st New York Times commentary calls us to “fix the census archaic racial categories.” He contends that the current national…