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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What I’ve learned from living with HIV The Melissa Harris-Perry Blog 2012-07-01 Macalester College Ed. note: This is a guest column by our guest today, Christopher MacDonald-Dennis, the Dean of Multicultural Life at Macalester College. Chris normally tweets this essay out every December 1 to commemorate World AIDS Day, but was kind enough to allow…
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Drawing on data from assisted reproduction, transnational adoption, mixed race families, Basque identity politics and post-Soviet nation-building, this volume provides new and challenging ways to understand race, ethnicity and nation.
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What DNA Says About Human Ancestry—and Bigotry The Village Voice 1997-10-28 pages 34-35 Mark Schoofs, Senior Editor ProPublica Race and genetics form their own double helix, twisting together through history. The Nazis, as everyone knows, justified the death camps on the grounds that Jews and Gypsies were genetically inferior—but what is less known is that…
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Mixed race: Fastest growing demographic in Canada The Province Vancouver, British Columbia 2012-06-24 Sam Cooper …And the hardest in the world to find a match for blood cells; one in millions, literally Brutal. Intensive. Without hope. Those are words that just don’t translate when you hear the voice of 14-year-old Lourdess Sumners, of Duncan. She’s…
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Bodies with Histories: The New Search for the Biology of Race Boston Review May/June 2012 Anne Fausto-Sterling Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Biochemistry, Program in Women’s Studies, and Chair of the Faculty Committee on Science and Technology Studies Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Richard C. Francis, Epigenetics: The Ultimate Mystery of Inheritance. W.…
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Race Finished: Book Review American Scientist April-May, 2012 Jan Sapp, Professor of Biology and History York University, Toronto Race?: Debunking a Scientific Myth. Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle. xviii + 226 pp. Texas A&M University Press, 2011. Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth, and Culture. Edited by Sheldon Krimsky and Kathleen Sloan. xiv +…
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In this intriguing and highly accessible book, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are—and are not—and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity.