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
- 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.
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Amrita Hepi’s New Dance Collab Explores Authenticity, Race & The Politics Of Passing Oyster Paddington, New South Wales, Australia 2016-05-10 Jerico Mandybur Local hero Amrita Hepi is showcasing her new dance piece ‘Passing’ — with costumes by Honey Long and sound by Laverne of Black Vanilla — alongside Jahra Rager at Next Wave Festival this…
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New Orleans II: the Halloween Ghost Post The History Tourist 2015-10-31 Susan Kalasunas My first chance to encounter a ghost at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel in New Orleans came not long after check-in. “Can we see the ballroom?” I asked the receptionist. “Yes. We don’t have an event tonight, but the doors should be open.…
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Knowledge Session: Who Was Lena Horne? I Am Hip-Hop 2015-07-07 Rishma Dhaliwal Lena Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father, Edwin “Teddy” Horne, who worked in the gambling trade, left the family when Lena was three. Her mother, Edna, was an actress…
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Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s The New York Times 2016-05-22 Cara Buckley, Culture Reporter Janelle Monáe, left, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in “Hidden Figures,” which is slated for release in January. Credit Hopper Stone/20th Century Fox ATLANTA — Taraji P. Henson hates math, and Octavia Spencer has a…
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Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History University Press of Kentucky 1999-12-16 224 pages 6 x 9 photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8131-2143-7 Janet Gabler-Hover, Professor of English Georgia State University Winner of the SAMLA 2001 Book Award Hagar, the Old Testament Egyptian heroine who bore Abraham’s son at the behest of Sarah, was…
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Black Velvet: redefining and celebrating Indigenous Australian women in art The Conversation (US Pilot) 2016-05-08 Sandra Phillips, Lecturer Creative Writing and Literary Studies, School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia *Warning: This article contains graphic language that may upset some readers, while Aboriginal and Torres…
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Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House Literary Hub 2016-04-21 Bridget Read Brooklyn, New York Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism In November of last year, Tin House published the text of a speech given by the author Claire Vaye Watkins, in which she spoke…
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Artist Turns Racist Flirtations on Tinder Into Compelling Look at Race and Sex The Root 2016-05-13 Demetria Lucas D’Oyley Phoebe Boswell Source: phoebeboswell.com She Matters: Inspired by James Baldwin’s “Stranger in a Village,” Phoebe Boswell was interested in exploring the perceptions of black women in predominantly white spaces. Over the weekend I swung by the…