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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Looking White, Acting Black: Cast(e)ing Fredi Washington Theatre Survey Volume 45, Issue 1 (2004) pages 19-40 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557404000031 Cheryl Black, Associate Professor of Acting, Theatre History/Theory/Criticism University of Missouri, Columbia In October 1926 a leading African-American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, featured adjacent photographs of two young women with a provocative caption: “White Actresses Who Open…
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Book Review: Go White, Young Man Vanderbilt Law Review Volume 65, En Banc 1 (2012-01-30) 10 pages Alfred L. Brophy, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law University of North Carolina School of Law Daniel J. Sharfstein. The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White. New York: Penguin…
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Batson Revisited in America’s “New Era” of Multiracial Persons Seton Hall Law Review Volume 33, Issue 1 (2003) Article 3 pages 67-108 John Terrence A. Rosenthal Since two bloods course within your veins, Both Jam’s and Japhet’s intermingling; One race forever doomed to serve, The other bearing freedom’s likeness. —Poem from Jacob Steendam to his…
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MOsley WOtta Frontman Jason Graham to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox, Heidi W. Durrow and Jennifer Frappier Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #245 –…
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“SAMO© as an Escape Clause”: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Engagement with a Commodified American Africanism Journal of American Studies Volume 45, Issue 2 (May 2011) DOI: 10.1017/S0021875810001738 Laurie A. Rodrigues Department of English University of Rhode Island Heir to the racist configuration of the American art exchange and the delimiting appraisals of blackness in the American mainstream…
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The mystery, myth and marvel of the Melungeons of East Tennessee Chattanooga Parent/North Georgia Parent 2012-01-08 Jennifer Crutchfield Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492. Even the youngest of us knows that rhyme but there is more to the story of the conquest of the New World and it was a man’s search for clues…
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Phil Wilkes Fixico—African-Native American activist, is a Seminole Maroon Descendant, Creek and Cherokee Freedmen descendant, Honorary Heniha for the Wildcat/John Horse Band of the Texas Seminoles, California Semiroon Mico, Member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Buffalo Soldiers 9th & 10th (horse) Cavalry and the Seminole Negro Indian Scouts of Brackettville, Texas. William Katz…
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Free Soldiers of Color The New York Times 2012-02-17 Donald R. Shaffer, Lecturer in History Upper Iowa University and blogger at Civil War Emancipation On Feb. 15, 1862, Louisiana dissolved all its militia units as part of a military reorganization law. Among the organizations disbanded was a militia unique in the Confederacy, the 1st Louisiana…
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Before Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, before James Weldon Johnson and James Baldwin, Charles W. Chesnutt broke new ground in American literature with his innovative exploration of racial identity and his use of African American speech and folklore.