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: Autobiography
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“Irrespective of the neighborhood in which I live, regardless of how articulate I might seem, all I am and all I ever will be to some people is Black.”
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One of the UK’s brightest and best comedians takes an incisive look at race and belonging.
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In his remarkable and moving memoir, Majors gathers the shards of a broken past to piece together a portrait of a man on an extraordinary journey toward Blackness, queerness, and parenthood.
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Single Race Scary Mixed: Because Being Mixed Isn’t Scary Enough A Dafina Moore Site2020-09-17 Dafina Moore Single race privilege is not understanding I am not a single race. Single race privilege is trying to make me pick one of those races and not understanding why that is difficult. Single race privilege is trying to explain…
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De Waal’s ‘extraordinary’ memoir goes to Tinder Press The Bookseller: At the Heart of Publishing since 1858 2021-09-28 Heloise Wood, Deputy News Editor Tinder Press has landed Kit de Waal’s memoir about growing up in Birmingham in the Sixties and Seventies, Without Warning and Only Sometimes, which she described as “the story I always wanted…
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My creativity can be traced back to my heritage, to the skin colour that defined how I was perceived. But, like my ancestors, I wouldn’t accept defeat
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“We Are Owed.” is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces.
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Black identity is usually wrapped up in not having choice. My family used their light-skinned privilege to flip that choice and turned Blackness into a celebration of pride and identity and love.