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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How Kathleen Collins’s Daughter Kept Her Late Mother’s Career Alive Vogue 2016-09-05 Nina Lorez Collins Nina Collins in a Karen Walker dress. Photographed by Ryan Pfluger, Vogue, September 2016 A struggling filmmaker whose life was cut short by illness, Kathleen Collins has a soaring career since her daughter reopened her archive. Ten years ago, in…
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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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When Looks Deceive: Being Biracial in Poland Wanderfull 2016-11-14 Julia Kitlinski-hong San Francisco, California It was a late December evening and my mom had just arrived in Krakow, where I had been studying for the past three months. We were making our way from my apartment to where she was staying in the nearby city…
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From Her Dad To Her ‘Jamish’ Roots, A Poet Pieces Her Story Together All Things Considered National Public Radio 2014-12-28 Arun Rath, Host Growing up in 1970s England, Salena Godden stood out. Her mother was Jamaican and her father was an Irish jazz musician who mysteriously disappeared from her life when she was very young.…
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“Springfield Road” is a journey into childhood in the late 1970s, a time of halfpenny sweets, fish and chips in newspaper, scrumping apples and foraging for conkers. Set in the dawn of Thatcher’s Britain, it’s a salute to every curly-top, scabby knee’d, mixed-up, half-crazy kid with NHS glasses, free school dinners and hand-me- downs, as…
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Loving Star Ruth Negga on Biracial Politics: “I Get Very Territorial About My Identity” Vogue 2016-12-07 Gaby Wood With her mesmerizing performance in Jeff Nichols’s subtly groundbreaking film Loving, the Irish-Ethiopian actress Ruth Negga has become a star for our time. “I’m a rag of a woman today,” Ruth Negga says in her faint Irish…
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Skin deep North By Northwestern Fall 2016 Mira Wang Photo by Alex Furuya / North by Northwestern Cracking the foundations of white beauty. When I was younger, my Asian American friends and I would play house. We’d be older, popular and wise to the world. We’d have cars and phones and play dates at the…
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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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‘Born a Crime,’ Trevor Noah’s Raw Account of Life Under Apartheid The New York Times 2016-11-28 Michiko Kakutani, Chief Book Critic Trevor Noah, host of “The Daily Show,” in 2015. His memoir provides a harrowing look at life in South Africa under apartheid and then after that era. Credit Chad Batka for The New York…