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: Campus Life
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Leaving to learn Columbia Daily Spectator 2015-12-02 Claire Liebmann Courtesy of Karl Jacoby Several years ago while browsing newspaper clippings online, Karl Jacoby, a history professor at Columbia, came across the story of William Ellis—a Texan slave who built a million dollar fortune while posing as a Mexican millionaire in New York, essentially hacking the…
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Identity Does Not Define Experiences The Oberlin Review Oberlin, Ohio 2015-04-24 Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura, College senior To the Editors: My name is Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura. I take he, him and his. I am a mixed-race Japanese American. I am cisgender and heterosexual; I am from Ohio and a strictly middle-class background. (I received a federal Pell Grant…
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Diversity and Multiracial Voices Mount Holyoke Radix South Hadley, Massachusetts 2015-11-10 Sonia Mohammadzadah ’18, Contributing Writer ***Please note: my use of the term “cultural org” includes both cultural orgs associated with cultural houses and those that are not. As someone who identifies as biracial, I’m never quite sure where I stand or what my role…
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Academia hasn’t “radicalized” me, it’s woken me up. Andrew Joseph Pegoda, A.B.D. 2015-11-25 Andrew Joseph Pegoda Society regularly miss-labels academics “radicals in the ivory tower,” especially those who work in the Liberal Arts, as they tend to be very aware of everyday culture and life. This wrath from society targets people, regardless of degrees or…
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What Woodrow Wilson Cost My Grandfather The New York Times 2015-11-25 Gordon J. Davis, Partner Venable, LLP, New York, New York John Abraham Davis, center, and his family at their farm in the early 1900s. Credit Courtesy of the Davis Family OVER the last week, a growing number of students at Princeton have demanded that…
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The Mixed-Race in-betweeners The Columbia Spectator New York, New York 2015-11-12 Keenan Smith I am Mixed-Race. I am both Black and white. I am also American and have therefore been raised in a culture that seems to be constantly divided along racial boundaries, whether they are in campus diversity and inclusion programs or identity-based organizations,…
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UPDATE: Mike Middleton is named interim UM System president The Columbia Missourian Columiba, Missouri 2015-11-12 Emma VanDelinder and Alexa Ahern Interim UM System President Michael Middleton speaks at his introductory news conference Thursday at University Hall. Middleton was the first black professor in the MU School of Law. More recently, he served as deputy chancellor…