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: Arts
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Spring 2008 Feature: Acting on a Dream Farmington First: Alumni Magazine University of Maine, Farmington Spring 2008 Marc Glass The stages of H’Nette DeTroy’s dramatic life include theater, dance and even commercial casting Looking at H’Nette DeTroy’s resume, you might think she suffers from career wanderlust. Since graduating from UMF in 2006, she’s been a…
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Telling His Story, Keeping His Promises: MOsley WOtta as performer and father True North Central Oregon Parenting January/February 2012 Michelle Bazemore photography by Kimberly Teichrow Note from Steven F. Riley: I will be the co-host on the February 22, 2012 podcast of Mixed Chicks Chat with featured guest Jason Graham. It’s difficult to spend time…
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It’s been a good year for Bend’s MOsley WOtta. The hip-hop group played shows around the state, opening for acts such as Ice Cube and Tricky. The band plans to close out this year with a New Year’s Eve show in Bend. That’s where the band will unveil its third official release, titled Amalgum X.…
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Johnny Otis, ‘Godfather of Rhythm and Blues,’ Dies at 90 New York Times 2012-01-19 Ihsan Taylor Johnny Otis, the musician, bandleader, songwriter, impresario, disc jockey and talent scout often called “the godfather of rhythm and blues,” died on Tuesday at his home in Altadena, Calif. He was 90. His death was confirmed by his manager,…
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Author, Yaba Blay, to appear on CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon CNN NewsRoom: Weekend Primetime 2012-01-14, 19:00-20:00 EST Don Lemon, Host Yaba Blay, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Lafayette College (1)ne Drop author, Yaba Blay, will appear on the weekend edition of CNN Newsroom with Don Lemon on Sunday, January 15, 2012 during the 7:00…
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The Black List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Eigth and F Streets, NW Washington, D.C. Open daily: 11:30-19:00 ET 2011-10-28 through 2012-04-22 Curator: Ann Shumard Historian: David C. Ward Portraits by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders — Individual prints are Epson inkjet prints, 147.3 x 111.8 cm (58 x 44 in.) What is…
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“IndiVisible” Discusses African–Native American Lives Newsdsesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian Institution 2012-01-06 “IndiVisible: African–Native American Lives in the Americas,” a 20-panel display that outlines the seldom-viewed history and complex lives of people of dual African American and Native American ancestry, will open at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York, the…
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A Jazz Celebration – Remembering the Life of Philippa Schuyler Southbank Centre London, England The Clore Ballroom 2012-01-27, 17:30Z The Abram Wilson Quartet Charismatic New Orleans trumpeter and vocalist Abram Wilson debuts original music inspired by the life of the Harlem born, mixed race classical piano prodigy, Philippa Schuyler, who died tragically young in 1967.…
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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…