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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Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam National Museum of the American Indian Potomac Atrium, 1st level Fourth Street & Independence Ave., S.W. Washington, D.C. 2012-12-08, 19:00-22:00 EST (Local Time) Design Yourself: IAMNMAI Art Jam” is an artistic partnership designed to explore issues of identity, community and mixed heritage through art while reminding us that everyone, in…
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The Life and Writings of Betsey Chamberlain: Native American Mill Worker (review) Studies in American Indian Literatures Volume 24, Number 3, Fall 2012 pages 138-141 DOI: 10.1353/ail.2012.0035 Margaret M. Bruchac By reconstructing the life history of Betsey Guppy Chamberlain (1797–1866), historian and librarian Judith Ranta has done some fine detective work that illuminates an otherwise…
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n this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town [East Jackson/Waverly] in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white. Racial lines have been blurred to invisibility, and people inside the same…
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Reviving Native Culture and Tradition with the Help of Elders – A Study of Maria Campbell’s Halfbreed The Criterion: An International Journal in English Volume III, Issue III (September 2012) 8 pages ISSN 0976-8165 A. Kamaleswari, Assistant Professor of English Saiva Bhanu Kshatriya (S. B. K.) College, Aruppukottai, India Elders should be role models for…
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Germans Loving Others: Narrating Interracial Romance in Kenya, North America, and Guatemala 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 70: Central European History Society 3 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom II (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Andrew Zimmerman, George Washington University Papers: “Seeking Winnetou:…
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Negotiating Racial and Ethnic Lines in the Borderlands: Mixed Peoples in Transitional North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 108 Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Cornet Room (Sheraton New Orleans) Chair: Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles Papers: “‘I Do Not Know…
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Children of Empire: The Fate of Mixed-Race Individuals in British India, the Caribbean, and the Early American Republic 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 105: North American Conference on British Studies Friday, 2013-01-04, 10:30-12:00 CST (Local Time) Chamber Ballroom III (Roosevelt New Orleans) Chair: Kathleen…
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Colonial Proximities: Crossracial Encounters and Juridical Truths in British Columbia, 1871–1921 (review) [Allan Cho] University of Toronto Quarterly Volume 81, Number 3, Summer 2012 pages 690-691 DOI: 10.1353/utq.2012.0090 Allan Cho, Program Services Librarian University of British Columbia As part of a new collective at the University of British Columbia re-envisaging the landscape and boundaries of…
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Is Elizabeth Warren an Indian? The Aporetic 2012-09-27 Mike O’Malley The question posed above is extremely hard to answer. She doesn’t “look like an indian.” But what do Indians look like? Just to recap: Elizabeth Warren is running for the Senate in Massachusetts. She’s been widely mocked for claiming herself as “native American” at various…
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Letter, W. A. Plecker to A. T. Shields. 9 May 1925. Typescript. Commonwealth of Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics Richmond, Virginia 1925-05-09 Source: Rockbridge County (Va.) Clerk’s Correspondence [Walter A. Plecker to A.T. Shields], 1912-1943. Local Government Records Collection, Rockbridge County Court Records. The Library of Virginia. 10-0477-003. In a letter to A.T. Shields, Walter…