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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Marvin Rees’s triumph as mayor defies Bristol’s racist past The Guardian 2016-05-08 Simon Woolley Source: Marvin Rees The descendant of enslaved Africans is now running a former slave city. His symbolic victory gives hope – and should not be forgotten While much has been said, rightly so, about a Muslim now leading London, we must…
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Jewish/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright Sarah Waisvisz, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, Monstrous, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro/Caribbean women
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The Digital Afterlife of Lost Family Photos On Photography The New York Times Magazine 2016-04-26 Teju Cole The backs of found photos from the writer’s “Mrs. X” collection. Credit Jens Mortensen for The New York Times The photographs were Polaroids, taken between the 1970s and the 2000s. Zun Lee bought them at flea markets, at…
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The Life and Work of Doctor-Turned-Photographer Zun Lee PetaPixel 2016-02-13 Michael Zhang, Founder & Co-Editor By day, Zun Lee is a doctor in Toronto, Canada. When he’s not working, he’s often unwinding from stress with a camera in hand. As a self-taught photographer, his documentary and street projects have caught the eye of The New…
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Made Black Jersey City Theater Center Merseles Studios 339 Newark Avenue, 2nd Floor Jersey City, New Jersey Saturday, 2016-05-07 20:00-23:00 EDT (Local Time) JCTC New Play Reading presents Schwarz Gemacht (Made Black) a cutting-edge, controversial play exploring race and identity through one of the most overlooked subcultures of the 20th century – mixed-race black German citizens…
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“One Drop of Love”: The Keynote Performance for the Mixed Heritage Conference at UCLA University of California, Los Angeles James West Alumni Center 325 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, California 90095 Saturday, 2016-04-30 14:30-16:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for some or all of this enlightening and affirming conference. One Drop will start at 2:30 pm…
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Tribute to Prince Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni 2016-04-24 One Drop of Love pays tribute to the one and only Prince with: June Snow (& Billy), G. Reginald Daniel, Paul Spickard, Nancy Fathi, Michael Prewitt, Alex Regalado, Chandra Crudup and Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni
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With ‘Keanu,’ Key & Peele Break Into Feature Films — With Kittens in Tow The New York Times 2016-04-20 Dave Itzkoff, Culture Reporter There is no longer “Key & Peele,” the razor-sharp Comedy Central sketch series that ended in September. There are only Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, the comic actors and writers who used…
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Mexican-Punjabis relation through dance NewsGram 2016-04-17 Megha Sharma the performance held on 10th and 11th april credits: kalw.org Mexican-Punjabi is a vanishing tribe The United States had always been an open land to possibilities. It is visited by a huge number of immigrants every year. California which is not only a land of renowned universities,…