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
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- 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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Mashpee Musician Produces Documentary About Native, African Music CapeNews.net Falmouth, Massachusetts 2015-01-19 Sam Houghton Morgan J. Peters, a Mashpee troubadour in Afro-Native-American-inspired music, with his band the Groovalottos, is on his way to producing a full-length album as well as a documentary. The “mini-film” will explore the combination of black and Native American music and…
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How one man has made a mark on history in northeast N.C. The Outer Banks Voice 2015-04-04 Ed Beckley Marvin T. Jones has a passion for local heritage and is responsible for a half dozen historical markers in the area. Our region’s rich history is brought to the fore each time someone who passes a…
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Scholar’s debut novel ties black, Native-American history The Detroit Free Press 2015-03-22 Cassandra Spratling Tiya Miles got it honest. Straight from her grandmother’s garden. That knack for telling stories that pull at your heartstrings. “I’m one of those people who had a storytelling grandma,” says Miles. “We’d be in the garden or snapping peas on…
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Now, Tiya Miles’s luminous but highly accessible novel examines a little-known aspect of America’s past—slaveholding by Southern Creeks and Cherokees—and its legacy in the lives of three young women who are drawn to the Georgia plantation where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out.
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Blood Quantum – Why it Matters, and Why it Shouldn’t All Things Cherokee 2014-08-04 Christina Berry “You’re an Indian? What part?” That’s the universal question many mixed-blood American Indians are asked every day. How many times have you mentioned in passing that you are Cherokee to find your conversation interrupted by intrusive questions about percentage?…
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Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band 2015 Conference Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band Moore, Oklahoma 2015-02-17 Rhonda Kay Grayson For Immediate Release Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band P.O. Box 6366 Moore, OK, 73135 The Muscogee Creek Indian Freedmen Band is thrilled to announce its 2015 conference. The conference theme is “Africans and Indians: Eating from the same…
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Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal to receive lifetime achievement award CTV News 2015-02-05 The Canadian Press TORONTO — As Metis actress Tantoo Cardinal prepares to receive a lifetime achievement award, she remembers what originally inspired her to begin acting more than 40 years ago: anger. “It wasn’t about a career at all — it was about…
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Association for Critical Race Art History: Building a Multiracial American Past CAA 103rd Annual Conference College Art Association New York, New York 2015-02-11 through 2015-02-14 Session Location/Time: New York Hilton Midtown 2nd Floor, Sutton Parlor Center 1335 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10019 2015-02-11, 12:30-14:00 EST (Local Time) Charles Paxson, Learning is…