Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
- 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
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Category: Autobiography
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High Yellow Poetry Foundation October 2014 Hannah Lowe Errol drives me to Treasure Beach It’s an old story, the terrible storm swerving the dark country roads the ship going down, half the sailors I think about what you will be, your mix drowned, half swimming the white, black, Chinese, and your father’s slate waves, spat…
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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.