Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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.
about
Category: Europe
-
You may not know it — but if you speak Spanish, you speak some Arabic too PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2015-10-15 Joy Diaz, Reporter Rihab Massif, originally from Lebanon, was my daughter’s preschool teacher in Austin. As a little girl, Camila, my daughter, spoke mostly in Spanish. And Massif remembers a day when…
-
Agriculture Linked to DNA Changes in Ancient Europe The New York Times 2015-11-23 Carl Zimmer The agricultural revolution was one of the most profound events in human history, leading to the rise of modern civilization. Now, in the first study of its kind, an international team of scientists has found that after agriculture arrived in…
-
Mixed-race descendant of Nazi murderer tells of life San Diego Jewish World 2015-11-18 David Strom, Professor Emeritus of Education San Diego State University, San Diego, California My Grandfather Would have Shot Me [Amon: Mein Großvater hätte mich erschossen], by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair. The Experiment, Pub. 2015, 221pp SAN DIEGO — At the age…
-
European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe University of Minnesota Press 2011 304 pages 6 b&w photos 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Paper ISBN 978-0-8166-7016-1 Cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-7015-4 Fatima El-Tayeb, Professor of African-American Literature and Culture University of California, San Diego European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European…
-
African American Interest & Experiences in Russia: A Brief History Afropean: Adventures in Afro Europe 2015-10-28 Robert Fikes, Jr., Reference Librarian San Diego State University Robert Fikes, Jr., Librarian at San Diego State University, recounts the history of the African American presence in Russia from the 19th century, noting that African Americans have had a…
-
Why Germany’s latest Nazi satire ‘Heil’ isn’t brave enough Deutsche Welle 2015-07-16 Sarah Hofmann An unlikely spokesman Neo-Nazi boss Sven (left, played by Beno Fürmann) celebrates a victory. He kidnapped Afro-German author Sebastian Klein (played by Jerry Hoffmann), who suffers from amnesia after behind hit on the head. Klein starts mimicking everything the neo-Nazis say.…
-
In 1858 François-Auguste Biard, a well-known sixty-year-old French artist, arrived in Brazil to explore and depict its jungles and the people who lived there. What did he see and how did he see it? In this book historian Ana Lucia Araujo examines Biard’s Brazil with special attention to what she calls his “tropical romanticism”: a…