Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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: Caribbean/Latin America
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Tais Araujo: Fighting Brazil’s Racism Takes More Than A Hashtag teleSUR 2015-11-18 Leopoldo Duarte Taís Araújo’s profile picture on her Twitter account. | Photo: Twitter, @taisdeverdade Most Brazilians take pride in living in a “racial democracy.” According to them Brazil is supposedly a country that evaded racism through the amicable blending of its native, African…
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An African King in Bolivia The New York Times 2015-11-17 David Gonzalez, Side Street Columnist; Lens Blog Co-Editor King Don Julio Pinedo being helped by his son, Rolando Pinedo, the prince, into a royal cloak. Queen Angelica oversees the details of her husband’s royal dress. Don Julio is shy and does not feel comfortable dressing…
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‘Mejorar la Raza’: An Example of Racism in Latino Culture Latino Voices Huffington Post 2015-06-15 Maria Alejandra Casale-Hardin University of California, Hastings, Law Class of 2018 Samuel Lange Zambrano portraying a 9-year-old Venezuelan boy obsessed with straightening his hair in the 2013 film Pelo Malo. ‘Mejorar la raza’ is a common phrase used in Latin…
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Revisiting Palmares: Maroon Communities in Brazil (Celeste Henery) African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2015-11-09 Celeste Henery, Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin This is a guest post by Celeste Henery, a Research Associate at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies. She completed a PhD…
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The Color of Love Lecture & Book Signing University of South Florida Tampa Library Grace Allen Room, 4th Floor 4202 E. Fowler Ave. LIB122 Tampa, Florida Monday, 2015-11-16, 11:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Assistant Professor in Sociology and ISLAC Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates [in her new book, The Color of Love:…