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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Author Interview: Neela Vaswani Sarabane Books 2010-07-19 The lovely Neela Vaswani takes a moment to chat with us about her new book, You Have Given Me a Country, out August 15 [2010]. Your previous book, Where the Long Grass Bends, was a collection of short stories with a strongly mythic cast, and your memoir is…
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The best fiction and poetry of 2010 The Washington Post Friday, 2010-12-10 …THE GIRL WHO FELL FROM THE SKY, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, $22.95). When several family members fall off the roof of a Chicago apartment building, the sole survivor is biracial Rachel, who goes to live with her grandmother in an African American…
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Hypodescent: New Work by Gabriel Mejia University of Wisconsin, Madison George L. Mosse Humanities Building 7th Floor Gallery Room 7240 455 North Park Street 2010-12-11 through 2010-12-16 Gabriel Mejia All events are free and open to the public. Closing Reception: 2010-12-16, 19:00-21:00 CST (Local Time). A meditation on identity and the social constructs of racial…
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Natasha Trethewey: 2010 Littoral: The Journal of Key West Literary Seminar 2010-03-17 Arlo Haskell Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry, including Native Guard, which won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize, Bellocq’s Ophelia, and Domestic Work, which won the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize. A native of Mississippi, a member of the Dark…
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“Mixed Race, White Mother: Love and Identity in the Age of Obama” 8th Floor, Raymond Hall State University of New York, Potsdam 2011-03-22, 16:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Traci Fordham-Hernandez, Associate Professor of Performance and Communication Arts St. Lawrence University Part of the SUNY Potsdam Women’s and Gender Studies Anne R. Malone Lecture Series. For…
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Half-Caste (An Excerpt) Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 1, (2008) 6 pages Angela Ajayi At about the age of nineteen, a year after I arrived for college in the United States, I stopped thinking of myself as “half-caste.” The word, so loaded in its literal meaning and with its colonial roots, was…
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Alumni Profile • Angela Ajayi ’97 The Calvin Spark The Magazine for Alumni and Friends of Calvin College Fall 2005 Working at the big question Who am I and how do I fit in this world? While every person struggles with these questions, they come to Angela Ajayi ’97 with some particular twists. The daughter…
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‘You Can Get Lost in Cape Town’: Transculturation and Dislocation in Zoë Wicomb’s Literary Works Afroeuropa: Journal of Afroeuropean Studies Volume 2, Number 3 (2008) 10 pages María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Professor of English University of Córdoba In Zoë Wicomb’s novels and short stories, main characters tend to share Wicomb’s coloured condition—mixed-race identity as defined…
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Miscegenation and Race: A Roundtable on Peggy Pascoe’s What Comes Naturally [A Tribute] Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Volume 31, Number 3, 2010 pages 1-5 E-ISSN: 1536-0334, Print ISSN: 0160-9009 Estelle B. Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson Professor of History Stanford University The following papers pay tribute to Peggy Pascoe’s [1954-2010] extraordinary book What Comes Naturally:…
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Cross ’12, Castagno ’12 Participate in Mixed Race Conference The Wesleyan Connecton Welyean University’s Newsletter 2010-12-02 Olivia Drake Rachel Cross ’12 and Alicia Castagno ’12 participated as panel members in a session of the Critical Mixed Race Conference sponsored by dePaul University in Chicago Nov. 5-6 [2010]. The conference was attended by academicians and students…