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
-
Who’s the most photographed American man of the 19th Century? HINT: It’s not Lincoln… The Washington Post 2016-03-15 Jennifer Beeson Gregory Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass would become one of the most well-known abolitionists, orators, and writers of his time. He understood and heralded not only the power of the written or spoken…
-
Misty Copeland on Why She Talks About Being a Black Ballerina For Harriet 2016-02-24
-
Jackie Kay the new Scots Makar, Shaping the Body Woman’s Hour BBC Radio 4 2016-03-25 The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay has just been announced as the next Scots Makar – Scotland’s national poet. She tells Jenni about the plans she has for her new role. Today a new exhibition examining how food, fashion and lifestyle…
-
What an 1887 murder and dismemberment tells us about race relations today The Philadelphia Inquirer 2016-02-17 Samantha Melamed, Staff Writer On the freezing-cold morning of Feb. 17, 1887, a Bensalem carpenter walking by an ice pond noticed a parcel wrapped in brown paper and marked “handle with care.” Inside, he found a male torso of…
-
A Blackanese Beauty Queen Contexts Volume 15, Number 1 (Winter 2016) pages 73-75 DOI: 10.1177/1536504216628844 M. Nakamura Lopez M. Nakamura Lopez is a writer living in Tokyo, Japan. She studies mixedness, migration, and transnational families. M. Nakamura Lopez on the new face of Miss Japan. Read the entire article here.
-
Africans in India: Pictures that Speak of a Forgotten History The Wire 2016-03-20 Jahnavi Sen Sultan Muhammad Adil Shah of Bijapur and African courtiers, ca, 1640. Credit: The British Library Board. An exhibition on Africans in India, highlighting the long history of African communities in India, opens on March 21 India and Africa have a…
-
Jackie Kay: Scotland’s poet of the people The Guardian 2016-03-20 Kevin McKenna Jackie Kay at the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh last week. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA To say there was a national outpouring of joy at the appointment of Jackie Kay as Scotland’s makar last week might be overdoing it, but not by much. In…
-
Jackie Kay unveiled as the new National Poet, or Makar, of Scotland The Herald Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 2016-03-15 Phil Miller Poet and author Jackie Kay The acclaimed writer Jackie Kay is the new National Poet for Scotland. Ms Kay, who lives in Manchester, who was awarded an MBE for her services to literature in 2006,…