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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Amrita Hepi interview Time Out Sydney 2015-05-24 Dee Jefferson, Arts & Culture Editor Sydney knows – and loves – Amrita for her Hollaback nights and Beyoncé dance classes, but her latest project is far more fierce Amrita Hepi was in the final creative phase of her dance-theatre work Passing, with New Zealand-born dancer and spoken-word…
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Mixed-Race Mixtape Explores Identity Through Hip-Hop Theater at UCI OC Weekly Fountain Valley, California 2016-05-17 Gabriel San Roman If Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump can tweet a picture of himself eating a taco bowl while declaring “I love Hispanics,” the national discussion around race has gotten soggier than the bottom of his bowl. Thankfully, Andrew…
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Black Velvet: redefining and celebrating Indigenous Australian women in art The Conversation (US Pilot) 2016-05-08 Sandra Phillips, Lecturer Creative Writing and Literary Studies, School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia *Warning: This article contains graphic language that may upset some readers, while Aboriginal and Torres…
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How street kids in the Bronx taught me it’s OK to be biracial and gay Fusion 2016-05-18 Terry Blas As a “nerdy, Mexican, gay, Mormon child of the ’80s and ’90s,” cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity… until an experience in New York taught him a valuable lesson. … Read the entire…
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Michael Dixon is a California-born artist who teaches as an associate professor at Albion College and was recently awarded studio space in New York through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. His paintings direct us toward controversy, self-reflection, and an appreciation for the value of these experiences.
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‘We are Iranians’: Rediscovering the history of African slavery in Iran Middle East Eye 2016-05-09 Jillian D’Amours ST CATHARINES, Canada – Behnaz Mirzai’s students often say her office is like a museum. With shards of ancient pottery recovered from the mountains of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, colourful vases from Isfahan, and tribal masks from…
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Cannes: Interracial Marriage Drama ‘Loving’ Throws Hat in Oscar Ring The Hollywood Reporter 2016-05-16 Gregg Kilday Director Jeff Nichols and stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga make a strong first-impression as their new film about the landmark Supreme Court case is unveiled. Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols’ new film about Richard and Mildred Loving — the…
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Stranger In The Village – A Visual Essay Phoebe Boswell, Visual Artist 2015-12-15 Artist’s Talk at Bla Stallet Konsthallen, Angered, Gothenburg, Sweden September 2015 The term ‘residency’ is an interesting one to me – it offers a sense of belonging, of being present, resident, which is artificial of course since you are more often than…
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Artist Turns Racist Flirtations on Tinder Into Compelling Look at Race and Sex The Root 2016-05-13 Demetria Lucas D’Oyley Phoebe Boswell Source: phoebeboswell.com She Matters: Inspired by James Baldwin’s “Stranger in a Village,” Phoebe Boswell was interested in exploring the perceptions of black women in predominantly white spaces. Over the weekend I swung by the…