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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Photographer Explores The Beautiful Diversity Of Redheads Of Color The Huffington Post 2015-08-25 Priscilla Frank, Arts Writer Michelle Marshall Red hair is usually the result of a mutation in a gene called MC1R, also known as a melanocortin 1 receptor. Normally, when activated by a certain hormone, MC1R sparks a series of signals that leads…
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Mixed-race heritage complicates stem cell search Radio Canada International 2015-08-24 Lynn Desjardins A 19-year-old woman with cancer is having trouble finding a stem cell donor because of her mixed aboriginal and Irish roots. Rosalie Lirette Gilbert was diagnosed on June 29 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia—a cancer of the blood and bone marrow…. Read the entire…
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How beliefs in biological differences can undergird racial and policy attitudes The London School of Economics and Political Science 2015-08-24 W. Carson Byrd, Assistant Professor of Pan-African Studies University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky Beliefs in biological differences between racial groups linger in both scientific and public discourse. Recent advances in genetics and genomics influence public…
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DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn’t America’s First Black President The New York Times 2015-08-18 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — Bill Clinton was called the first black president because he crossed racial lines so easily, a distinction he lost when Barack Obama became the first actual black president. But for decades, some Americans…
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DNA Is Said to Solve a Mystery of Warren Harding’s Love Life The New York Times 2015-08-12 Peter Baker, Chief White House Correspondent WASHINGTON — She was denounced as a “degenerate” and a “pervert,” accused of lying for money and shamed for waging a “diabolical” campaign of falsehoods against the president’s family that tore away…