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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Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics
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Tales of African-American History Found in DNA The New York Times 2016-05-27 Carl Zimmer The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys. The first brought hundreds of thousands of Africans to the southern United States as slaves. The second, the Great Migration, began around 1910 and sent six million African-Americans…
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Ghana To Ban Skin Bleaching Products in August The Root 2016-05-29 Angela Bronner Helm, Adjunct Profesor of Journalism City College of New York The government of Ghana will ban all products containing hydroquinone this summer. Colorism, that which privileges lighter skin over darker, is an issue that not only affects African Americans, but pretty much…
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“Race” and Science The Common Reader: A Journal of The Essay 2016-04-19 Garland Allen, Professor Emeritus of Biology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri A new book traces the complicated legacy of race’s biological conceptions. Michael Yudell; J. Craig Venter (fore.), Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)…
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Day of Absence 2016: Carolyn Prouty – Race-Based Medicine: What It Is And Why It’s a Problem The Evergreen State College Productions Olympia, Washington 2016-04-06 Carolyn Prouty There is no biological basis for race; it is a socially constructed concept. Nonetheless, the structural nature of racism in society manifests itself in different health outcomes for…
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String of Pearls: Exploring the Melungeon mystery SWVa Today Wytheville, Virginia 2016-03-29 Margaret Linford, President Smyth County Genealogical Society, Marion, Virginia Judge Isaac Freeman spoke to the Smyth County Genealogical Society on Tuesday, March 22, regarding the Melungeon people. He has been intrigued by this topic for many years. His father was best friends with…
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AmbryShare Restores Genes to the Public Domain The Huffington Post 2016-03-29 Amal Cheema, Biochemistry and Political Science Student Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “As a stage four cancer survivor, I find it shocking that public and private laboratories routinely lock away vital genomic information. That practice is delaying medical progress, causing real human suffering, and it…