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
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- 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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Exclusive: Watch Salena Godden’s ‘Under the Pier’ The State Of The Arts 2017-01-10 Christy Cooney Leeds, United Kingdom Spoken word artist Salena Godden has kicked of 2017 with the release of a video for ‘Under the Pier’, a piece from her 2016 album LIVEwire. Shot on location in Hastings, East Sussex in November 2016, the video was filmed, directed, and…
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Meet the Afro-Mexicans connecting to their African roots through dance Ventures Africa 2017-01-05 Iroegbu Chinaemerem Oti “Based on your culture, history, and traditions, do you consider yourself Black, meaning Afro-Mexican or Afro-descendant?” – MEXICO’S 2015 Intercensal Survey The sound of Bata drums filled the air as girls, with printed scarfs tied around their waists and white…
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An Artist Reinvents Herself to Mine the Fictions of America Hyperallergic 2017-01-09 Alicia Eler Genevieve Gaignard makes the personal political while also creating new American mythologies. LOS ANGELES — In the lead-up to a Trump presidency, the worst possible outcome for an America that has come so far in the past 100 years in terms…
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Episode 199 – Michael Tisserand Virtual Memories: The chief of the Inner Station 2017-01-02 Gil Roth, Host “I always feel like Herriman’s a a step ahead of me. When I read Krazy Kat I think I know what I’m reading; the next week I read the same strip and I realize I’m reading something different…
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Guest DJ Xenia Rubinos Spins Music From Solange To Ravel alt.Latino: Latinx Arts and Culture National Public Radio 2017-01-04 Felix Contreras, Host Xenia Rubinos plays Guest DJ on this week’s episode of Alt.Latino. Courtesy of the artist Vocalist Xenia Rubinos ended 2016 with a bang: Her album Black Terry Cat was singled out in best-of-the-year…
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Ruth Negga: ‘Stories about race and identity pique my interest… I have always felt like a fish out of water’ The Belfast Telegraph 2016-12-31 Patricia Danaher Starring role: Ruth Negga’s career is going from strength to strength Nominated for a Golden Globe, tipped for an Oscar and on the cover of Vogue, Ruth Negga is…
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Still ‘Krazy’ after all these years: A life of George Herriman, pioneering comic writer and N.O. exile The New Orleans Advocate 2016-12-05 Susan Larson, Host, The Reading Life WWNO-FM, New Orleans George Herriman, from Michael Tisserand’s Krazy Kat bio of George Herriman For Michael Tisserand, as for most of us, the love of comics came…
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Call For Papers: Spaniards, Natives, Africans, and Gypsies: Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song, and Dance 2016-10-16 K. Meira Goldberg, Visiting Research Scholar Foundation for Iberian Music The Graduate Center The City University of New York 365 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10016 Prof. Walter Clark, Director The Center for Iberian and Latin…
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In the world of American ballet, Misty Copeland is the exception. As the first black woman to become a principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, Copeland knows what it’s like to be one of the few women of color to break through.