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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Daughter Discovers Father’s Black Lineage National Public Radio 2007-10-02 Farai Chideya, Host Famed literary critic Anatole Broyard carried a big secret most of his life. He was a black man passing as white. His daughter, Bliss Broyard, writes about how she learned of her father’s hidden life and explored her black ancestry in the memoir…
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What was it like raising three biracial children? WBEZ 91.5 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-06 Bill Healy Rosa Ramirez was in basic training in the Army, when she came across a girl in her barracks with red hair and blue eyes. “What kind of blood do you have?” Ramirez asked her. “Do you see the world blue?”…
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Box Marked Black + Futility of Nicknames Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts: The Best of Performing, Literary and Media Arts KBOO 90.7 FM or KBOO.FM Portland, Oregon 2015-02-24, 11:00-12:00 PST (Local Time) Dmae Roberts, Host Dmae spotlights two different writers: Damaris Webb who’s performing her autobiographical play The Box Marked Black about growing up…
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One Playwright’s ‘Obligation’ To Confront Race And Identity In The U.S. Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-02-16 Jeff Lunden Playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins may be only 30 years old, but he’s already compiled an impressive resume. His theatrical works, which look at race and identity in America,…
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The gains and losses of racial “code switching” KALW 91.7 FM San Francisco, California 2015-01-27 Hana Baba, News Reporter/Host On today’s episode of “Crosscurrents,” we are talking about identity. We have heard how people, whether intentionally or not, can “pass” as another race, just by the sound of their voice. Passing can also be a…
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Have That Awkward Conversation About Race – And Yes, Whiteness Too KUOW 94.9 FM Seattle, Washington 2014-12-24 Jamala Henderson, Morning Newscaster/Reporter Protests over high profile police shootings have renewed calls to discuss police treatment of African-Americans – and talk about race relations in general. But how do we have those difficult and often awkward conversations?…