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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University of Missouri Press to Shut Down in July Riverfront Times St. Louis, Missouri 2012-05-25 Aimee Levitt The Post-Dispatch was not the only publishing institution in Missouri to have a bad week. Yesterday morning, Tim Wolfe, the president of the University of Missouri system, announced plans to shut down the University of Missouri Press. The…
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Breaking the Race Barrier 360 Magazine Ithica College 2012-05-02 Danielle Torres “I’m Puerto Rican.” That’s usually what I say when people ask a second time where I am from. The first time someone asks me that question I usually say, “I’m from New York.” Then the person rephrases the question, “What are you? What is…
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Penn mutliheritage organization experiences re-birth The Daily Pennsylvanian 2012-04-06 Diana Gonimah Mixed ethnicity students met to discuss their experiences and Check One’s future Last night, Penn students came together over their ability to check more than one box under “Ethnicity” on their college applications. College junior Chris Cruz and Engineering sophomore Ibrahim Ayub hosted a…
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Multiracial Subject Theory: Lessons in Organizational Praxis University of Washington 2011 180 pages Publication Number: AAT 3472097 ISBN: 9781124842813 Claire Elizabeth Fraczek A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy University of Washington This dissertation investigates racial complexities in higher education through three distinct papers in which…
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New group aims to create a space for biracial students Kansas State Collegian 2012-02-14 Jakki Thompson, Assistant News Editor K-State recently welcomed The Association of Multiracial Biracial Students, an organization for students of mixed races and ethnicities, to campus. AMBS is the first organization of its kind on campus and was founded by Clayton Patrick,…
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Amy Locklear Hertel to Head American Indian Center at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Indian Country Today 2012-04-29 Tanya Lee Amy Locklear Hertel, newly-selected director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was admonished by her grandmother to pursue her education. “Grandmother told me to get…
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Affirmative action backed in largely black Brazil Associated Press 2012-05-04 Bradley Brooks SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s top court has backed sweeping affirmative action programs used in more than 1,000 universities across this nation, which has more blacks than any country outside Africa yet where a severe gap in education equality between races persists. The…
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Brazil’s top court backs racial quotas in universities The Australian 2012-05-01 BRAZIL’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that racial quotas used in universities are constitutional and are meant to redress inequalities stemming from centuries of slavery. The ruling issued by the 10-member court concerned the case of the University of Brasilia which in 2004 set…