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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Matthew McConaughey & Gary Ross Mount Civil War Saga; Bob Simonds’ STX In Talks To Finance Deadline Hollywood 2014-11-05 Mike Fleming Jr., Film Editor Anita Busch, Film Editor EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey and writer-director Gary Ross are the catalysts for a project called Free State Of Jones, which is getting some serious attention from STX Entertainment,…
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St Martin de Porres Victoria and Albert Museum: The world’s greatest museum of art and design London, United Kingdom 2014-11-03 William Newton, Assistant Curator Today on Sanctus Ignotum we have a case study in race relations, and our first South American saint. Born in Lima, Peru in 1579, the illegitimate son of a Spanish knight…
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M.I.X.E.D: Multidisciplinary.Intersectional.Xchanging.Empowering.Dialogues Art Show Call for Entries
M.I.X.E.D: Multidisciplinary.Intersectional.Xchanging.Empowering.Dialogues Art Show Call for Entries 2014-08-29 M.I.X.E.D. is a 100% volunteer run event & art show created in order to make space for progressive discussion around mixed-race identity and our many other intersecting identities. To learn more about “intersectionality”, please visit: http://mixed-me.ca/intersectionality This year’s event will take place on Saturday May 2nd, 2015.…
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Take the current Irish dance “it” girl, Julia O’Rourke. She was born in New York, and has Filipino and Irish ancestry. At age 15, she is a two-time world champion and star of the Irish dance documentary “Jig.” That film follows dancers from around the world who are training for and traveling to the 2010…
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Portlander Damaris Webb explores racial gray areas in ‘The Box Marked Black’ The Oregonian Portland, Oregon 2013-02-16 Marty Hughley When it came time for Damaris Webb to apply for college, her father encouraged her to check the box on application forms indicating “black” as her racial origin. For long enough in his family’s history, being…
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“The Box Marked Black” is coming to Willamette University Oct. 24-25 Willamette University News Salem, Oregon 2014-10-02 What does it mean to be black? Is it the shade of your skin or the kink in your hair? Is it learned? These questions are explored in “The Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing…