Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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.
about
Category: Autobiography
-
Don’t Call Me the ‘Black Seth Rogen’ The New York Times 2016-02-27 Colton Dunn Richie Pope Los Angeles — YEARS ago, I was in a cast in what’s called a “network showcase.” Hollywood does tons of these types of showcase shows. The networks bring in young actors to create material and perform for agents, managers…
-
I Feel Guilty for Being Able to ‘Pass’ as a Person of Color Kveller 2016-02-18 Elana Rabinowitz Brooklyn, New York He called me negra. Not mami or guapa, but what translates to “black woman.” I wasn’t offended. More confused. The thing is, I’m really just a white Jewish girl from Brooklyn. There, I said it.…
-
The Struggles Of Being Biracial Odyssey 2016-02-08 Tamera Hyatte “What are you?” I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked this question and the same response I like to give is “I’m human.” I know it strikes people’s curiosity that I am mixed with black and white, having a white father and…
-
An Interview with Poet and Room Poetry Coordinator Chelene Knight Room: Literature, Art, and Feminism Since 1975 Issue 37.4: Claiming Space (2015) Interview with Bonnie Nish Chelene Knight was born in Vancouver and is a graduate of The Writer’s Studio at SFU. She has been published in Sassafras Literary Magazine, Room, emerge 2013 and Raven…
-
“Braided Skin” is the vibrant telling of experiences of mixed ethnicity, urban childhood, poverty and youthful dreams through various voices. Knight writes a confident rhythm of poetry, prose and erasure by using the recurring image of braiding–a different metaphor than “mixing,” our default when speaking the language of race.
-
Identifying as Mixed Race vs Identifying as Black: I Choose Both Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-02-10 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom I recently watched an interview with the UK rapper, writer and academic Akala. I usually really enjoy hearing him speak and generally find him to be quite faultless in his views on racial…
-
I thought I was a gorgeous kid until I learned I was just ‘pretty, for a black girl’ The Guardian 2016-02-04 Rebecca Carroll My white birthmother told me that the idea that I was gorgeous was a fiction inflicted upon me out of a sense of white liberal guilt When I was a little girl,…
-
I’m protective of my blackness because I had to find it myself The Guardian 2015-11-12 Rebecca Carroll I was dogged in my determination to evolve outside the narrow margins of the small white world of my beginning and into another more racially familiar one I spent the first 20 years of my life internalizing white…
-
One Drop of Love: Presented by Mesa Arts Center as part of the Performing Live Series Mesa Arts Center Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse One East Main Street Mesa, Arizona 85201 Telephone: 480.644.6500 Friday, 2016-02-05, 19:30 MST (Local Time) Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love travels…
-
Bridging the Divide: My Life Rutgers University Press 2006-11-09 352 pages 16, 5.75 x 8.75 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-3905-8 Senator Edward W. Brooke (1919-2015) President Lyndon Johnson never understood it. Neither did President Richard Nixon. How could a black man, a Republican no less, be elected to the United States Senate from liberal, Democratic Massachusetts-a state…