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: An Earth Odyssey” Performance by Elizabeth Liang Arts at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology Eastman Laboratories (Building 6) 2014-02-21, 18:00-20:30 EST (Local Time) Written and Performed by Elizabeth Liang Who are you when you’re from everywhere and nowhere? Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey is a funny and poignant one-woman show about growing up…
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Who Gets to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2014-02-09 Nicole Nfonoyim de Hara This post is in response to a great question a friend asked about how the wonderful new book (1)ne Drop:Shifting the Lens on Race by Dr. Yaba Blay and Noelle Théard, featuring portraits of individuals…
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Miscegenating Racial Representations: Critical Mixed Race Strategies and the Visual Arts College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference Hilton Chicago 720 South Michigan Avenue International South, 2nd Floor Chicago, Illinois 60605 2014-02-15, 14:30-17:00 CST (Local Time) Chairs: Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design DePaul University Margo Machida, Associate Professor of Art History and Asian…
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Grafton Tyler Brown—whose heritage was likely one-eighth African American—finessed his way through San Francisco society by passing for white. Working in an environment hostile to African American achievement, Brown became a successful commercial artist and businessman in the rough-and-tumble gold rush era and the years after the Civil War. Best known for his bird’s-eye cityscapes,…
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Cultural Identities: Mixed Blood Mitchell Museum of the American Indian 3001 Central Street Evanston, Illinois 60201 847.475.1030 September 2013 With the influx of immigrants from throughout the world, the United States has been called the great melting pot. But how has this played out for the original people in America? Explore how American Indian peoples…
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Why did the BBC cast a mixed-race Porthos in The Musketeers? The Guardian 2014-01-28 Stuart Jeffries, Feature Writer and Columnist Certain viewers are non-plussed by the casting of a musketeer of colour, but surely blind casting is preferable to an historical whitewash Studs in leather? Check. Swordplay? Check. Buckled swash? Check. Medieval cleavages? Check. Over-complicated…
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Getting Race-y in the PMAC The News: The official student newspaper of Choate Rosemary Hall Wallingford, Connecticut Saturday, 2014-01-25 Alexandra Brunjes ’16, News Staff Reporter “How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships?” This is the question that Ms. Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni sought to answer during her one-woman performance, One Drop of…
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“Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang Mu Preforming Arts presents: New Eyes Festival Staged readings of the newest script from the Asian American theater canon 2014-01-23 through 2014-01-26 The Playwrights’ Center 2301 East Franklin Avenue Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406 “Purple Cloud” by Jessica Huang Friday, 2014-01-24, 19:30 CST (Local Time) Weaving together the stories of Lee, a…
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Choate Celebrates MLK Day Choate Rosemary Hall 333 Christian Street Wallingford, Connecticut 06492 (203) 697-2000 Friday, 2014-01-17, 19:30 EST (Local Time) Photo: Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni “One Drop of Love,” a multimedia solo performance by Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, will be presented on Friday, January 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Arts Center. This performance tells the…