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
- 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.
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Here, I will explore Loving’s unintended consequences by considering why the Court took so much for granted and how the opinion later was deployed in unexpected ways. After briefly examining the facts and holdings in the case, I will show that the Justices accepted monoracial categories as a given, despite evidence of multiracial complexity.
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Multiracial meditations The Portland State Vanguard Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 2012-02-13 Jeoffry Ray PSU panel to discuss growing up biracial in context of novel The Girl Who Fell from the Sky How does one begin to discuss the experience of belonging to more than one “race”? It’s really up to the participants,” said Dr.…
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The Loving Story Home Box Office (HBO) 2012-02-14, 21:00 EST Nancy Buirski, Director and Producer In June 2, 1958, a white man named Richard Loving and his part-black, part-Cherokee fiancée Mildred Jeter travelled from Caroline County, VA to Washington, D.C. to be married. At the time, interracial marriage was illegal in 21 states, including Virginia.…
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MFNW 2010: We are all MOsley WOtta Oregon Music News 2010-09-09 Aaron Brandt Jason Graham is MOsley WOtta. So are you, and so am I. That core message of commonality is one good reason why MOWO is quickly gaining such a vast following–that, and tracks full of realistic humor, a bit of brain, and some…
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MOsley WOtta Arts Beat Oregon Oregon Public Broadcasting TV 2011 Meet hip-hop artist Jason Graham and find out why “I am MOsley WOtta and so are you!” MOsley WOtta is a sly play-on-words meant to remind us that we are all “mostly water.” This inclusive, hip-hop reminder helps Bend-based man-behind-the-artist Jason Graham find family wherever…
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Loving Prize Presentation Honors: Scholar G. Reginald Daniel, Actor/Writers Kevin Knotts and Kim Wayans Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2012-02-02 (Los Angeles, CA) The Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will present the 5th Annual Loving Prizes to community leaders on June 16, 2012 at 7pm at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown…
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“I now harbor more pride in my race”: The Educational Benefits of Inter- and Intraracial Dialogues on the Experiences of Students of Color and Multiracial Students Equity & Excellence in Education Volume 45, Issue 1 (2012) pages 14-35 DOI: 10.1080/10665684.2012.643180 Kristie A. Ford, Assistant Professor of Sociology Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York Victoria K.…
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‘Town Secret’: Race of Famous Carthaginian Embraced The Pilot Southern Pines, North Carolina 2012-02-11 John Chappell Every year with its Buggy Festival, Carthage celebrates the achievements of a former slave, though until recently few knew it. William T. Jones — born a slave, and the son of a slave and her owner — ran the…