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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Brother from Another Mother The New Yorker 2015-02-23 Zadie Smith Key and Peele’s chameleon comedy. The wigs on “Key and Peele” are the hardest-working hairpieces in show business. Individually made, using pots of hair clearly labelled—“Short Black/Brown, Human,” “Long Black, Human”—they are destined for the heads of a dazzling array of characters: old white sportscasters…
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EXCLUSIVE: Meet Hip-Hop’s Next Big Thing Nitty Scott, MC Latina 2015-02-13 Raquel Reichard If you’re a hip-hop fan, you may already be familiar with the genre’s latest heavy hitter: Nitty Scott, MC. This year alone the half-Puerto Rican, half-African American artist has been called the next big MC and a woman you should know. And…
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Arturo O’Farrill: Afro-Latino Heritage Is ‘One Big Culture That We All Share’ The Huffington Post Latino Voices 2015-02-06 Roque Planas, Editor Arturo O’Farrill wants Africa to get the credit it deserves. The New York-based pianist, composer and educator traveled Friday to Los Angeles to attend the Grammys, where his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra’s “The Offense…
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‘One Drop’ at Cambridge Rindge & Latin The Boston Globe 2015-02-03 Meredith Goldstein, Entertainment Reporter From left: Junot Díaz, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, and Kate Ellis. (Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe) Actor-producer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni brought her one-woman show, “One Drop of Love,” to the Cambridge Rindge & Latin School on Friday night. The play,…
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Brooklyn is: Feature of the Week [Beth Consetta Rubel] Brooklyn Artistry Brooklyn, New York 2015-02-02 The latest and greatest untouched talent of the borough. Being a biracial woman from the South we wanted to know what it was like for Beth Consetta Rubel as an artist. So many things can be triggering for an artists…
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The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis. A Narrative Biography Esquiline Hill Press 2012 567 pages (est.) mobi ISBN: 978-1-58863-450-4 PDF ISBN: 978-1-58863-451-1 ePub ISBN: 978-1-58863-452-8 Harry Henderson Albert Henderson Edmonia Lewis was the first famous “colored sculptor” and the first to idealize her African and American Indian heritages in stone. She flourished from 1864 through…
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About Hatsumi… with Toronto Director Chris Hope: Part 1 of 3 Discover Nikkei 2012-06-27 Norm Masaji Ibuki An extraordinary and beautiful film…exhaustively and passionately researched, both at the level of the filmmaker’s personal history and as an investigation into our national consciousness” —Academy Award® Nominated Director, Atom Egoyan Thus far in 2012, the 70th anniversary…
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Tracee Ellis Ross: ‘That Hurt Like the Bejesus’ The New York Times 2015-01-22 Tracee Ellis Ross Credit Pej Behdarvand for The New York Times The actress talks with Jenna Wortham about defining her own sense of beauty and humor. It’s awards-show season. Do you like going to the shows? I didn’t actually go to the…