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: Europe
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The first-ever biography of Alessandro de’ Medici, arguably the first black head of state
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From White to Yellow: The Japanese in European Racial Thought, 1300-1735 McGill-Queen’s University Press November 2014 712 Pages, 6 x 9 32 b&w photos ISBN: 9780773544550 Rotem Kowner, Professor Department of Asian Studies University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel An examination of the evolution of European racial views of the Japanese. When Europeans first…
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Following the stories of families who built their lives and fortunes across the Atlantic Ocean, Intimate Bonds explores how households anchored the French empire and shaped the meanings of race, slavery, and gender in the early modern period.
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This wildly imaginative and culturally resonant tale by Daniel Picouly audaciously places black and mixed-race characters–including King Mac, creator of the first hamburger, who hands out figures of Voltaire and Rousseau with his happy meals, and the megalomaniac Black Delorme, creator of a slavery theme park–at the forefront of its Revolution-era story.
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Pensive in Prague: Examining Identity Abroad, June 20th The Harvard Independent 2016-07-24 Gabby Aguirre This is the second in a series of summer blog posts where the author reflects on her time as a first-generation Latina studying abroad in Prague. You can find the first blog post here. The date is June 20th, and I’m…
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Call for Proposals: Colors of Blood, Semantics of Race: Racial Categories and Social Representations: A Global Perspective (From the late Middle Ages to the 21st Century) Casa de Velázquez Madrid, Spain 2016-12-15 through 2016-12-16 Toward the end of the Middle Ages, the outset of the European expansion considerably increased the contacts between culturally different peoples.…
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Biracial Afro-Germans search for their identity in a country where many think that to be German is to be white.
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How Reggie Yates went from kids’ TV to confronting neo-Nazis The Guardian 2016-06-28 Hannah J. Davies Louis Theroux 2.0: Reggie Yates in a cell at Bexar County Detention Center. He braves Russian far-right rallies and Texas prison cells for his job. Meet the man helping to reinvent the documentary for Generation Y While filming in…