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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Race in the US: What if your identity was a lie? Al Jazeera Magazine 2015-08-21 John Metta “There are no qualifiers to my blackness, and I will never again be Not Black Enough. I am a black man, and I am angry.” My father’s anger was a storm. Like many other boys, I was carefree…
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Race, love, hate, and me: A distinctly American story Daily Kos 2015-08-20 Shaun King [Shaun King] 14 years old. Sophomore in high school Over the past 72 hours I have been attacked with lies by the conservative media, lies that have been picked up by the traditional media and spread further. I have kept silent…
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Lacey Schwartz didn’t know she was black, but her black friends did Fusion 2015-08-19 Collier Meyerson With two white parents and no black family members (save for a dark Sicilian uncle a couple generations removed), Lacey Schwartz was raised thinking she was white. Growing up, Schwartz’s community was predominantly white: her friends, her classes, her…
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Showtime Adapting Mat Johnson’s Novel ‘Loving Day’ As Comedy About Racial Identity Deadline Hollywood 2015-08-17 Nellie Andreeva, TV Editor In a competitive situation, Showtime has acquired the rights to Mat Johnson’s recently published semi-autobiographical novel Loving Day as a potential comedy series. Talks are underway with high-end writers to collaborate with the author on penning…
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Jamaican British | Raymond Antrobus | Spoken Word Chill Pill Shorts 2015-08-18 Raymond Antrobus, Poet, Lead Educator Spoken Word Education MA Programme; Co-founder of @ChillPillUK & @KHPoets A poem by Raymond Antrobus about the many contradictions of a mixed race identity Some people would deny that I’m Jamaican British. Angelo nose. Hair straight. No way…
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Meghan Markle, star of the hit show “Suits,” opens up about creating her identity and finding her voice as a mixed race woman
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Half white, half Asian Dubliner Dean Van Nguyen speaks to other mixed-race Irish people in their twenties and thirties about growing up in a primarily white culture, being subjected to racist taunts, and coming to terms with their own sense of self.
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I’m a Mizrahi Jew. Do I Count as a Person of Color? Forward 2015-08-10 Sigal Samuel, Deputy Digital Media Editor Eye of the Beholder: Sigal Samuel has been considered white and non-white, depending on who’s looking. (Image: Martyna Starosta) Am I a person of color? You’d think there would be a straightforward answer to a…