Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- 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.
about
Category: Arts
-
Race and the Visual Arts: LAHS-P236 Berklee College of Music Boston, Massachusetts Fall 2013 In this course, students explore the representation of race in visual culture and the ways in which culture marks subjects, objects, and bodies with racial identity. Wherever we look we are confronted by images that are explicitly or implicitly racialized—in artistic…
-
War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art curated by: Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Wei Ming Dariotis, Associate Professor Asian American Studies San Francisco State University Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience 2013-08-09 through 2014-01-19 719 S. King Street Seattle,…
-
Akala: Dynamite by any other name… The Guardian The Observer 2013-06-01 Kate Mossman Rapper, adapter of Shakespeare and brother of Ms Dynamite, Akala is on a mission to correct a few misconceptions A few weeks ago in these pages, Birmingham rapper Lady Leshurr asked why there had been no high-profile female rappers in the UK since…
-
Interracial Families in 18th-Century Mexico The Root 2013-07-23 Unknown artist working in New Spain (Mexico), De español y negra mulata, oil on canvas, 36 by 48 cm (Museo de America, Madrid) Image of the Week: A painting captures the multiethnic population in New Spain, now Mexico. One of the most typical, revealing products of colonial…
-
“In 2004, I discovered my biological dad was African-American,” said Mr. Lee, who had been raised in a Korean family in Germany. “It had basically been a one-night stand. He ran away when he learned she was pregnant. She doesn’t even remember his name anymore.”
-
‘Belle’ breaks through the aristocratic color barrier USA Today 2013-07-21 Bryan Alexander British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw used to envy her classmates from the prestigious Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London as they moved on to perform in lavish English period dramas. But as an actress of color, she found it difficult to land such…
-
War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art Opening Reception Wing Luke Museum 719 South King Street Seattle, Washington Thursday, 2013-08-08, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for the opening reception of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age, this multi-platform project…
-
Lola Flash: [sur]passing Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 420 Commerce Street Charlottesville, Virginia Contemporary Gallery Exhibition Dates: 2013-06-07 through 2013-08-30 For more than 20 years Lola Flash has been committed to deconstructing racism, sexism and homophobia through challenging photographic imagery. [sur]passing is a work in progress that confronts the phenomenon known as pigmentocracy. The term,…
-
Q&A with artist and author Laura Kina Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb 2013-07-11 Deborah Kalb Laura Kina, the Vincent de Paul associate professor of Art, Media, and Design at DePaul University, is the co-editor of the new book War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and the co-curator of an accompanying art exhibit. She…
-
Photographer Interview: Albert Chong Dodge & Burn: diversity in photography history 2011-02-08 Qiana Mestrich, Visual Artist + Writer Dodge & Burn: Where are you from? Albert Chong: I am originally from Kingston, Jamaica by way of Brooklyn, NY, San Diego, CA and presently Boulder, CO. D&B: What kind of photography do you shoot and how…