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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Herb Jeffries, a jazz balladeer whose matinee-idol looks won him fame in the late 1930s as the “Bronze Buckaroo” — the first singing star of all-black cowboy movies for segregated audiences — died May 25 at a hospital in West Hills, Calif. He was widely believed to be 100, but for years he insisted he…
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Radmilla’s Voice: Music Genre, Blood Quantum, and Belonging on the Navajo Nation Cultural Anthropology Volume 29, Issu3 2 (May 2014) pages 385-410 DOI: 10.14506/ca29.2.11 Kristina Jacobsen-Bia, Assistant Professor of Music University of New Mexico Window Rock, Navajo Nation, Arizona, September 1997. A young woman butchers a sheep as the crowd at the Navajo Nation Fairgrounds…
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One Drop of Love – Lounge Theater 1, Los Angeles Plays 411 May 2014 Saturday, 2014-05-31 20:30 PDT (Local Time) Lounge Theatre 1 6201 Santa Monica Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90038 How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love is a multimedia solo performance exploring family, race, love,…
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Portrait of the mystery lady: The incredible story behind the 18th-century painting that inspired a new movie The Daily Mail 2014-05-03 Paula Bryne Attributed to Johann Zoffany (circa 1778) Until recently, little was known about the mixed-race girl in an 18th-century painting associated with Kenwood House in London. But a new book and film reveal…
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Stunning Self-Portraits Make You Think Twice About Interracial Identity In South America The Huffington Post 2014-04-25 Katherine Brooks, Arts & Culture Editor Brazilian artist Adriana Varejão has been exploring themes of interracial identity through an unlikely medium—self-portraits. To confront and challenge concepts like colonialism and miscegenation in her home country, she turns her own visage…
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Pilot Episode The Source Weekly Bend, Oregon 2014-03-20 Brianna Brey Jason Graham (The Source Weekly) The Lot’s new open mic calls on Bend’s creative types “Calling ALL local musicians, artist and hacks,” reads the event listing for Bend’s newest open mic night, an free-for-all gathering on Wednesday nights at The Lot. “Sing a tune, read…
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David Walker & Color of Film + In The Mix doc on mixed-race artists Stage & Studio KMZE 107.1 FM Gresham, Oregon 2014-03-25 Dmae Roberts, Host [At 00:28:46] “In The Mix: Conversations with Artists…Between Races” by Dmae Roberts is a radio exploration of Mixed Race with novelist Lisa See, Playwright Heather Raffo, Writer/Conceptual Artist damali ayo, Playwright…