Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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Natives: Race and class in the ruins of empire

2018-05-28

A searing modern polemic from the BAFTA- and MOBO-award-winning musician and political commentator, Akala
Mixed Race Britain in The Twentieth Century

2018-05-25

This book explores the overlooked history of racial mixing in Britain during the course of the twentieth century, a period in which there was considerable and influential public debate on the meanings and implications of intimately crossing racial boundaries.
Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations

2018-05-19

Beyond Black and White: A Reader on Contemporary Race Relations SAGE Publishing 2017 488 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781506306940 Edited by: Zulema Valdez, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Beyond Black and White is a new anthology of readings that reflects the complexity of racial dynamics in the contemporary United States, where the fastest-growing…
The demise of the white majority is a myth

2018-05-19

But rumors of white America’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. That’s because the prevailing definition of whiteness is stubbornly stuck in the past.
What Meghan Markle means to black Brits

2018-05-11

After she marries Prince Harry, the royal family will look a bit more like modern Britain.
‘A dirty deed’: Fort McMurray Métis demand apology after historic eviction of an Indigenous settlement

2018-05-02

Moccasin Flats is the unresolved story of how at least 12 Indigenous families were evicted or relocated from a Fort McMurray riverside community in the late 1970s to make way for a city expanding feverishly to accommodate oilsands growth.
Portugal confronts its slave trade past

2018-04-23

Planned monument in Lisbon sparks debate over race and history.
The Multiracial Option: A Step in the White Direction

2018-04-22

This Note argues that based on the history of racial classifications in the United States and existing motivations to maintain the white majority, the push for a multiracial category functions as a means by which mixed race individuals can join the ranks of whiteness.
Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany

2018-04-20

The Black German Heritage and Research Association (BGHRA) is collaborating with the Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto in hosting the 3-day SSHRC-funded conference, “Transnational Perspectives on Black Germany” in Toronto, Ontario, on May 23-25, 2018.
A Visit to the 2018 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

2018-04-12

Leaders in the multiracial movement gather to ‘Resist, Reclaim, Reimagine’ – a direct call to action amidst the current political climate faced by historically underrepresented communities in the U.S.

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