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.
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Category: Arts
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From Okinawa to Hawaii and Back Again What It Means to Be American: Hosted by The Smithsonian and Zócalo Public Square 2015-08-31 Laua Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Kibei Nisei, 30 x 45 inches Oil on canvas (2012) A Painter Follows the Currents of Her Family…
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Photographer Explores The Beautiful Diversity Of Redheads Of Color The Huffington Post 2015-08-25 Priscilla Frank, Arts Writer Michelle Marshall Red hair is usually the result of a mutation in a gene called MC1R, also known as a melanocortin 1 receptor. Normally, when activated by a certain hormone, MC1R sparks a series of signals that leads…
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Now casting nationwide for a dynamic and charismatic, blended, interracial family! Kinetic Content (part of Red Arrow Entertainment Group) Los Angeles, California 2015-08-12 Angelo Ierace, Development Producer Kinetic Content, a television production company in Los Angeles, California, is currently developing docu-series that will feature the day-to-day life of one blended, interracial family. If you and…
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Tony Gleaton: Photographing The African Story Across The Americas Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-08-23 Karen Grigsby Bates Photographer Tony Gleaton died last Friday after struggling with a particularly aggressive cancer for 18 months. He was working, signing prints, talking to museums (several have his work in their collections,…
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Voodoo Chile-Jimi Hendrix / Gayageum ver. by Luna Ourstorian: Until Lions write their own history, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the Hunter 2015-08-23 From wiki: “The gayageum or kayagum is a traditional Korean zither-like string instrument, with 12 strings, though some more recent variants have 21 or other numbers of strings. It…
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Exhibition: Zun Lee, Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Contemporary Gallery 233 4th Street, NW Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 2015-06-09 through 2015-08-29 Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12:00-18:00; Saturday, 10:00-15:00 Through intimate black-and-white frames, the viewer gains access to often-overlooked moments in the lives of African American men whom…
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Times Regrets ‘Slave Mistress’ in Julian Bond’s Obituary The New York Times 2015-08-20 Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor After Julian Bond’s death on Saturday, The Times published a lengthy and well-written obituary summing up the life and work of the civil rights champion. But many readers were bothered by a single sentence in the front-page article:…
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Tony Gleaton, 67, Dies, Leaving Legacy in Pictures of Africans in the Americas The New York Times 2015-08-18 Bruce Weber Tony Gleaton, a photographer who turned his back on a career in New York fashion and embarked on an itinerant artistic quest, documenting the lives of black cowboys and creating images of the African diaspora…
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Showtime Adapting Mat Johnson’s Novel ‘Loving Day’ As Comedy About Racial Identity Deadline Hollywood 2015-08-17 Nellie Andreeva, TV Editor In a competitive situation, Showtime has acquired the rights to Mat Johnson’s recently published semi-autobiographical novel Loving Day as a potential comedy series. Talks are underway with high-end writers to collaborate with the author on penning…