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: Native Americans/First Nation
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The double life of Injun Joe Maclean’s 1956-07-21 Dorothy Sangster [Katz] (1913-2011) The tourists at Algonquin Park think they’re meeting a real live redskin in a tribal tepee. Indian schmindian! He’s Tex Boyden, who reads the New Yorker, sips Martinis and makes his living selling beads to the white natives When Erl Boyden was five…
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That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia [Smithers Review] Journal of American History Volume 103, Issue 3, December 2016 pages 742-743 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jaw364 That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia By Arica L.…
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What I Found in Standing Rock The Players’ Tribune 2016-12-01 Bronson Koenig, Guard Wisconsin Badgers Photos by Alexandra Hootnick/The Players’ Tribune Near the edge of the Standing Rock camp in North Dakota, about 50 yards from a tributary of the Missouri River, there’s a basketball hoop. It’s one of those worn-out outdoor hoops that leans…
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Race In The Northwest: Hood River Man Learns His Family’s Surprising Truth Oregon Public Broadcasting 2016-12-07 Anna Griffin, News Director Hood River writer and cidermaker John Metta. Anna Griffin/OPB Hood River, Oregon—John Metta grew up thinking of himself as mixed race: His mother was white. His father’s side of the family proudly proclaimed themselves a blend of…
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Patrick Wolfe: Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race New Books Network 2016-11-07 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia Aziz Rana, Professor of Law Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Widely known for his pioneering work in the field of settler colonial studies, Patrick Wolfe advanced the theory that settler colonialism was, “a structure, not an event.”…
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Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race Verso Books January 2016 306 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781781689172 Hardback ISBN: 9781781689165 Ebook ISBN: 9781781689196 Patrick Wolfe Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose…
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You took a DNA test and it says you are Native American. So what? PRI’s The World Public Radio International 2016-11-24 Andrea Crossan, Senior Producer Boston, Massachusetts Have you been tempted to try one of those genetic testing kits, like the ones sold by Ancestry.com or 23andme.com? Maybe you’ve seen a commercial featuring Kim Trujillo.…
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Growing up Indigenous when you don’t look it Unreserved CBC Radio 2016-11-06 Rosanna Deerchild, Host From r: Trevor Jang, Julie Daum, and Daniel Bear. (Supplied) Has anyone ever asked you where you come from? Or what your ethnic background is? Ethnicity and how the world perceives you don’t always go together. Which presents a challenge…
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The White and Black Worlds of Loving v. Virginia TIME 2016-11-04 Arica L. Coleman AP Photo Richard and Mildred Loving on this Jan. 26, 1965, prior to filing a suit at Federal Court in Richmond, Va. Richard and Mildred Loving—the couple who inspired the new film Loving—lived in a world where race was not simply…