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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Category: Politics/Public Policy
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‘Daily Show’ host Trevor Noah to be a keynote speaker at Dem retreat Politico 2016-01-22 Lauren French “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah will be a keynote speaker at the House Democratic Caucus issues retreat next week, sources familiar with the event said. Noah will join President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and environmentalist and…
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Misc.: How to Really Kill Affirmative Action or Why Abigail Fisher Ain’t Rachel Dolezol The Multiracial Advocate 2016-01-20 Thomas Lopez, President Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) Abigail Fisher was a mediocre high school student applying to the University of Texas (UT). She couldn’t get in based on her grades and test scores alone so…
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Jewish Uses and Abuses of Martin Luther King’s Memory Forward 2016-01-18 Jared Jackson, Founder/Executive Director Jews in ALL Hues Four years ago, I made a promise to myself: I would not accept any more invitations to speak to the Jewish community on Martin Luther King weekend. Since then, I have dutifully kept that promise. But…
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#MemeOfTheWeek: The Racial Politics Of Nikki Haley National Public Radio 2016-01-16 Sam Sanders, Reporter, Washington Desk Gov. Nikki Haley, R-S.C. at Charleston, S.C., Republican presidential debate Thursday. Andrew Burton/Getty Images Depending on whom you ask, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s State of the Union response this week was either going to save the modern Republican…
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Remembering Julian Bond (1940-2015) Politico 2015-12-29 Josh Zeitz Getty For many Americans, Julian Bond, who died in August at age 75, was quite literally the voice of the modern civil rights movement. In the early 1960s, when he served as communications director for the Student Non Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and in later years, as…