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
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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Category: United States
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Rebecca Carroll talks with us about her latest book, “Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir” that walks us through her struggle with race and identity as she navigates life in a white world.
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The trend personified by the Kardashians is driven by the aesthetics of ambiguity – and proximity to whiteness
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Patrick Healy never directly addressed questions of what his racial identity might have been in the written record he left behind. However, he wrote on a few occasions about “blacks” or “negroes” in a tone that seems to indicate that he saw them as a group he did not belong to.
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Rebecca Carroll discusses her new memoir that examines transracial adoption and forging her own Black identity.
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DC Entertainment reportedly passed on “Bridgerton” breakout Regé-Jean Page for a role in Syfy’s “Krypton” after an executive allegedly argued that the series’ lead could not be portrayed by a Black actor.
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“Septuagenarian: love is what happens when I die” is a memoir in poetic form. It is the author’s journey from being a mixed-race girl who passed for white to being a woman in her seventies who understands and accepts her complex intersectional identity; and no longer has to imagine love.
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“Love Imagined” is an American woman’s unique struggle for identity.
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Gail Lukasik’s life was turned upside down when she discovered her mother was mixed race but had ‘passed’ as white to escape racial segregation in the US.