Mixed Race Studies

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  • White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia

    In her fourth full-length book, “White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia,” Kiki Petrosino turns her gaze to Virginia, where she digs into her genealogical and intellectual roots, while contemplating the knotty legacies of slavery and discrimination in the Upper South.

  • Being Mestiza

    I’ve been getting a lot of questions from readers about what I mean when I say I’m mestiza. That fact is always one of the first pieces of information in all my author bio and that’s intentional.

  • MIXED MESSAGES episode five – Steve

    Steve [Majors] discusses his book, “High Yella.” He tells what it was like growing up in a Black family and being told he was Black, to being white assumed as an adult while raising two Black daughters. In his search for identity, Steve discovers being Black is not only skin deep.

  • A Daughter’s Quest: On Anne Liu Kellor’s “Heart Radical”

    A Daughter’s Quest: On Anne Liu Kellor’s “Heart Radical” Los Angeles Review of Books 2021-11-12 Amy Reardon Anne Liu Kellor, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging (Berkeley, California: She Writes Press, 2021) GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN in Seattle, Anne Liu Kellor struggled to understand the ache she carried inside. Her debut memoir,…

  • Beyond Visible: Gina Prince-Bythewood on the Necessity of Black Women’s Cinema

    There is a gloriously unaffected vibe about Gina Prince-Bythewood. Cerebral and sublime, casually beautiful and laser-focused, she has written and directed impressive television and film for the past twenty-plus years with equal parts rigor and joy. And she has achieved all this without losing her sense of self as a Black woman in America, and…

  • Growing up, as a mixed race child, with survivor grandparents

    Kyla Kupferstein describes how her yiddishkeyt was sparked by her Buba and Zayda in the Bronx and what her Jewish journey has been like since then.

  • Notes On ‘Passing’

    The upcoming drama, based on the 1929 novel, looks at the cultural self-alienation a black woman experiences when she attempts to gain the privileges that come with assuming a white identity.

  • Your Attention Please: Initiative 29 – Tao Leigh Goffe • Hulu

    Journey through time with professor and DJ Tao Leigh Goffe as she uncovers her story at the intersection of Black and Chinese culture in this month’s #Initiative29 episode.

  • A Canadian’s Perspective On The American Multiracial Experience

    How could I identify as Black when I’ve never experienced racism directly? Why do I have to identify as a particular race? Why can’t I just be me?

  • Belonging is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton

    Belonging is Everything: Talking with Georgina Lawton The Rumpus 2021-03-01 Donna Hemans “My teacher’s methods were most definitely trash, but that day she taught me a valuable lesson about race,” Georgina Lawton writes in her memoir Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth about Where I Belong. “She let me know that whiteness…