Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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.
about
Category: Arts
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Ashley Minner is a community based visual artist from Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a BFA in Fine Art, an MA and an MFA in Community Art, which she earned at MICA. A member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, she has been active in the Baltimore Lumbee community for many years. Her involvement in…
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Tonight: Syfy Premieres New Alien Terrorist Series, ‘Hunters’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-04-11 Tambay A. Obenson Britne Olford – HUNTERS Tonight, Syfy premieres the first season of “Hunters” it’s new fantastical procedural thriller produced by Universal Cable Productions (in association with Valhalla Entertainment and Atlas Entertainment, respectively). Britne Oldford (“American…
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Misty Copeland Opens Up About ‘Lack of Diversity’ in Ballet World Variety 2016-04-09 Misty Copeland spoke from the heart at Variety’s third annual Power of Women New York event about her journey “from living in a motel to dancing on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House.”
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Jussie Smollett Talks About Growing Up in a Biracial Home and Pranking His ‘Empire’ Costars ABC News 2016-04-08 Angela Williams, Entertainment TV Producer There is lots of great music, loads of drama and plenty of surprises packed into each episode of Fox’s “Empire.” And much of it is centered around break-out star Jussie Smollett who…
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A Contested Art: Modernism and Mestizaje in New Mexico University of Oklahoma Press 2015 304 pages 6.125″ x 9.25″ Hardcover ISBN: 9780806148649 Stephanie Lewthwaite, Lecturer in American History, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham When New Mexico became an alternative cultural frontier for avant-garde Anglo-American writers and artists in the early twentieth century, the region…
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Tribeca 2016 Preview: Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in ‘Little Boxes’ Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2016-03-31 Tambay A. Obenson Nelsan Ellis, Armani Jackson, Melanie Lynskey in “Little Boxes“ The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off in a couple of weeks, running from April 13-24 in New York City. Leading…
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Trevor Noah: ‘It’s easier to be an angry white man than an angry black man’ The Guardian 2016-04-02 Lanre Bakare, Deputy Arts Editor Trevor Noah photographed at the Daily Show offices. Photograph: Christopher Lane Six months ago the South African comic took on the trickiest task in comedy; replacing Jon Stewart as host of the…
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Blanket Fort Chats: Game Making With Meagan Byrne FemHype: the safe space for women & nonbinary gamers 2016-04-01 Miss N (Nicole Pacampara) “Blanket Fort Chats” is a weekly column featuring women and nonbinary game makers talking about the craft of making games. In this week’s post, we feature Meagan Byrne, a Toronto-based Game Design student…