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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“Unrest,” the feature documentary about ME (also known as chronic fatigue syndrome) which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, will get a UK release in October.
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With “Hopeless Fountain Kingdom,” the queen of New Americana is more outspoken than ever. Here, she covers everything from donating $100,000 to Planned Parenthood to the virtues of the dad bod.
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An explosive world-premiere commission by subversive American playwright Thomas Bradshaw, “Thomas and Sally” gets up close and personal with our country’s first prominent mixed-race family: Thomas Jefferson and his African American slave, Sally Hemings.
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Last year’s most talked-about, most unforgettable production is returning to Woolly for a limited three-week run: “An Octoroon” by new MacArthur “Genius Grant”-winner Branden Jacobs-Jenkins!
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“When you are writing a novel, you are always trying to submerge yourself in a dream state, and New York was constantly waking me up from that state,” says Danzy Senna.
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The alchemy of American music as it relates to Native Americans is such a voluminous subject that, inevitably, the fascinating “Rumble” can’t do it justice.
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Filmmaker and librarian Rebekah Henderson will tackle mixed-race identity in her forthcoming documentary.
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Under Armour has a new ad out featuring Misty Copeland, guaranteed to both make you want to work out and perhaps pick up a poetry book. Saul Williams provides the backing poem, For Misty, with words as lyrical as her movements.
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The Chi-town native has created a work in “The Autobiography” that’s equal parts confessional and confrontational, gut-wrenching and uplifting. Steeped in a personal story arc that envelopes Mensa’s hometown, it echoes with the pain of a generation.
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Clyde Ensslin Explores Thomas Jefferson’s Secret, Unflattering History in his Fringe Debut Washington City Paper 2017-07-06 Caroline Jones, City Lights Editor Clyde Ensslin (Darrow Montgomery) Clyde Ensslin’s journey to the Capital Fringe Festival began, of all places, in an Uber. Ensslin has driven for the rideshare company since 2014, and one night in the fall…