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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‘Alien Citizen’ delivers a raw, moving sociological odyssey The Williams Record: The Independent Student Newspaper at WIlliams College since 1887 Williamstown, Massachusetts 2014-09-24 William Walker, Staff Writer If there’s anything that students at the College love to think about, it’s identity. Indeed, the big questions about who we are, what we want to do and…
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“Am I White” by Adrienne Dawes Salvage Vanguard Theater Presents the Word Premiere of Am I White by Adrienne Dawes Performances run October 1- 18, 2014 VIP Opening Night Performance: October 4, 2014 Salvage Vanguard Theater 2803 Manor Road Austin, Texas 78722 Telephone: (512) 474-SVT-6 (474-7886) Salvage Vanguard Theater announces the third and final MADE…
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Black Fathers, Present and Accountable Lens Blog: Photography, Video and Visual Journalism The New York Times 2014-09-19 Maurice Berger, Research Professor and Chief Curator Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture University of Maryland, Baltimore County An anxious little girl hugs her father as a shark swims overhead in an aquarium. A man feeds his…
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Here’s Why Louis CK’s Kids Are White But Their Mother Is Black In ‘Louie’ Business Insider 2014-09-18 Aly Weisman, Senior Editor There’s one mystery on FX show “Louie” that has never really been addressed. While Louie’s ex-wife “Janet” is played by black, Jamaican actress Susan Kelechi Watson, his two daughters are very white, very blonde…
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Elizabeth Liang finds home: Performance at Williams College ’62 Center The Berkshire Eagle Pittsfield, Massachusetts 2014-09-17 Madeline Vuong, Special to Berkshires Week & Shires of Vermont WILLIAMSTOWN — “Where are you from?” It’s an easy question on the surface, but a more complicated matter if you’re Elizabeth Liang, a child of mixed-race parentage, who grew…
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The Octoroon: A Tragic Mulatto Enslaved by 1 Drop The Root 2014-09-09 Image of the Week: A sculpture addresses the ramifications for those who were mixed-race. John Bell, The Octoroon, 1868. Marble, 159.6 cm high. Town Hall, Blackburn, U.K. This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with…