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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Category: Politics/Public Policy
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Tío Tomás’s Cabin: Marco Rubio and White Cubanidad Latino Rebels 2016-01-14 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Last semester I had a young man turn in an assignment in which students were instructed to write to a current presidential candidate. This particular student had been outspoken and one of the more…
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Hundreds gather over Maggie Walker statue controversy WWBT, NBC 12 Richmond, Virginia 2016-01-12 Ashley Monfort, Henrico Reporter RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Discussion about plans to build a statue of Maggie Walker in downtown Richmond drew a lot of opinions on both sides. Hundreds of residents gathered at the Richmond Public Library Tuesday to have their…
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As they have in the past, the conservative truth spinners behind the online media outlet Breitbart News Network have initiated an attack against yet another person of color fighting for civil and human rights. The target this time is activist Shaun King, who has been vocal about the police abuse that has permeated our consciousness…
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Al Sharpton says some criticism of de Blasio is related to his mixed race family The New York Daily News 2016-01-05 Jennifer Fermino, City Hall Bureau Chief The Rev. Al Sharpton thinks that some of Mayor de Blasio’s woes stem from his mixed race family. Speaking Tuesday morning at an interfaith breakfast, Sharpton said that…
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Brazil’s Federal Universities Approach Racial Quota Implementation Deadline Truthout 2015-12-30 Marlenee Blas Pedral, Fulbright Fellow Comissão Fulbright Brasil In 2016, Brazil’s prestigious federal universities will be required to confirm that fifty percent of their incoming students come from public schools. Furthermore, slots for self-identifying Black, mixed-race and Indigenous students must correspond to the proportion of…