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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U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove’s ‘Sonata Mulattica’ to be Adapted for Film UVA Today Charlottesville, Virginia 2013-05-07 Anne E. Bromley, Associate Little did poet Rita Dove know when she published her book, “Sonata Mulattica,” that it would go beyond rescuing from obscurity a 19th-century, Afro-European violin virtuoso named George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower. Now that book of…
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Kevin Costner Hopes His New Movie Redefines How People Think About Race The Huffington Post 2015-01-22 Sasha Bronner, Los Angeles Editor Kevin Costner, who just turned 60 earlier this week, can do a lot of things. “I can make a love story. I can make the American baseball movie. I can make the political thriller,…
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The Face of Skin, Inc.: An Interview with Chinyere Evelyn Uku by Thomas Sayers Ellis Graywolf Press August 2013 The cover image of Thomas Sayers Ellis’s Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems features Ellis’s own black-and-white photograph of Chinyere Evelyn Uku, an African woman from Nigeria who has albinism. On the release of the paperback edition…
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Half Like Me Fusion Thursday, 2015-01-22, 22:00 EST (21:00 CST, 19:00 PST) (Full Schedule) Prompted by an upcoming family reunion, Al Madrigal—actor, comedian and “Daily Show” correspondent—takes us on his journey from full-on red-blooded American to almost Mexican, as he learns how to be a better Latino and understand what it means to be “Half…
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Living Color: Fathers Talk to Their Bi-Racial Sons NBC News 2015-01-14 Photographs by André Chung Teaching lessons they never had to learn, fathers speak to their bi-racial sons about identity, perception, and dealing with law enforcement. Mark Johnson-Lewis, 48, and his son, Tyler Lewis, 22, of Columbia, MD (André Chung/NBC News) …Mark: You’re black in…
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Young Artists: Saya Woolfalk W November 2008 Timothy McCahill For the last two years Saya Woolfalk has practically lived in No Place, the futuristic work she is creating through painting, sculpture and video. So it’s not surprising that when she talks about it, the line between fact and fiction seems a little fuzzy. More than…
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Al Madrigal’s New Special ‘Half Like Me’ Is What Latinos Have Been Waiting For The Huffington Post 2015-01-13 Ana Maria Benedetti Al Madrigal goes on a journey of self-discovery… starting with how to pronounce his own name. In his new one-hour special “Half Like Me,” premiering on Fusion on January 22, The Daily Show’s senior…
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Women in TV 2015: Tracee Ellis Ross in ‘black-ish’ Elle 2015-01-08 Seth Plattner, Culture Editor This article appears in the February 2015 issue of ELLE magazine. Clones and copywriters. Journalists and sex scientists. Cult survivors and carnival acts. These actors fearlessly take on roles that are all over the map. So what do they have…