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
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- 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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2011 Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law by Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig: “According to Our Hearts: What Does the Rhinelander v. Rhinelander Case Teach Us about Race, Law, and Family?” University of California, Davis School of Law Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom 2011-11-08, 16:00-18:00 PST (Local Time) Run Time: 01:05:58 Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J.…
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Public Mothers: Native American and Métis Women as Creole Mediators in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest Journal of Women’s History Volume 14, Number 4, Winter 2003 Special Issue: Revising the Experiences of Colonized Women: Beyond Binaries Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark During the early nineteenth century, the largely Francophone, mixed ancestry residents…
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The Case of Loving v. Bigotry The New York Times 2012-01-01 Julie Bosman Photography by: Grey Villet In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were arrested in a nighttime raid in their bedroom by the sheriff of Caroline County, Va. Their crime: being married to each other. The Lovings—Mildred, who was of African-American and Native American…
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Born Along the Racial Fault Line The New York Times 2011-11-06 Janet Maslin My Long Trip Home: A Family Memoir By Mark Whitaker. Illustrated. 357 pages. Simon & Schuster. As a social studies major in his junior year at Harvard, Mark Whitaker attended a debate on the subject of ethnicity. One participant was the chairman…
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Baseline Study on Diversity Segments: Multirace Americans Institute for Public Relations Gainesville, Florida January 2008 15 pages Bey-Ling Sha, Ph.D., APR, Professor of Journalism and Media Studies San Diego State University Sponsored in part by ConAgra Foods, Inc. Public relations practitioners and scholars need to consider multirace Americans as an increasingly important public, with identities,…
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Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…
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My Confederate Kinfolk: A Twenty-First Century Freedwoman Discovers Her Roots Basic Civitas Books 2007-01-02 352 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780465015740; ISBN-10: 0465015743 Thulani Davis Starting from a photograph and writings left by her grandmother, acclaimed African-American novelist Thulani Davis goes looking for the “white folk” in her family, a Scots-Irish family of cotton planters unknown to…