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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Playwright Adrienne Dawes imagines an dystopian future — with humor Austin American-Statesman Austin, Texas 2016-01-16 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Arts Critic Adrienne Dawes (Laura Skelding) Adrienne Dawes donned denim recently when she stopped by Salvage Vanguard Theater for a rehearsal of her latest play to debut at the indie East Austin venue. “Denim Doves” opens…
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National Museum of the American Indian Presents Unprecedented Retrospective “Kay WalkingStick: An American Artist” Newsdesk: Newsroom of the Smithsonian 2015-10-29 SI-423A-2015 For nearly five decades, Kay WalkingStick (Cherokee, b. 1935) has charted an artistic career that is not bound by singular definition. While her early work with Native themes celebrate heroic American Indian leaders with…
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Maud Sulter The Herald Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom 2008-03-21 Artist and writer; Born September 19, 1960; Died February 27, 2008. MAUD Sulter, who has died after a long illness aged 47, was an extraordinarily gifted visual artist, writer, playwright and cultural historian. She was born in Glasgow, of Scots and Ghanaian descent: in her poem…
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Staceyann Chin Worries About Money, and Selling Out The New York Times 2016-01-14 Laura Collins-Hughes The day she traded in her little two-door convertible for a crossover S.U.V. — “a mom car,” she calls it — the performance poet Staceyann Chin went home and cried. It wasn’t enough that pregnancy had forever altered her body.…
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On this episode of BackStory, the Guys will consider how and why Americans throughout the centuries have crossed the lines of racial identity, and find out what the history of passing has to say about race, identity, and privilege in America.
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Phoebe Boswell: The Matter of Memory Africanah.org: Arena for Contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean Art Amsterdam, Kingdom of the Netherlands 2015-02-05 Yvette Greslé, Art Historian/Writer Edited by Rob Perrée Phoebe Boswell. ‘The Matter of Memory’, 2013-14. Installation view at Carroll/Fletcher [detail]. Courtesy the artist and Carroll/Fletcher. I settle into an armchair and am surprised by…
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Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku discussing her life and work on Talking Africa BlackRook Media 2015-05-12 Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku has been discussing her life and work on Talking Africa. Chi-Chi is a passionate advocate of music and particularly the double bass. She is a Principal Double Bass and founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of…
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Meet Team One Drop: Dr. Chandra Crudup Fanshen Cox 2016-01-12 Meet One Drop of Love’s Production Manager, Dr. Chandra Crudup. She makes sure all technical aspects of the show are in place and lends lots of other support to Fanshen when we travel. She also often calls the show and hosts our Q&A talkbacks. She…
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Why I’m Over The White-Washing Of ‘The Bachelor’ Every Season Elite Daily 2016-01-05 KiMi Robinson Los Angeles, California I just cyber-stalked my ex and his new flings — except I never dated the guy, nor will I ever have that opportunity. In other words, I went through all 28 contestant’s profiles from the upcoming season…