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
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- 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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The complicated relationship between Asian Americans and affirmative action Quartz 2015-07-17 Lauren Gurley In most places, my hair and my skin color don’t stand out in a crowd. In the past, people have mistaken me for Mexican, Italian, Hawaiian, and Israeli. Although sometime this has felt like a privilege and a reason for pride, at…
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When I talk about my family culture, I’m mixed. When I talk about racism, I’m black. When Trayvon Martin was shot for wearing a hoodie, I was black. When Eric Garner was choked to death for selling cigarettes on the street, I was black. When Sandra Bland was arrested for failing to turn on her…
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The beauty of being mixed race: How I learned to love my hapa eyes Today Show 2015-08-12 Samantha Okazaki, Multimedia Producer “Chinese eyes, Chinese eyes,” the whole table mocked me with their stupid song, pulling at the corners of their eyelids until they were tiny slits; a gross exaggeration of my actual eye shape. They…
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Press Release for That Daughter’s Crazy Paradox Smoke Productions 2014 Some apples don’t fall far from the tree. Paradox Smoke Productions is proud to announce the launch of their new documentary, That Daughter’s Crazy, starring Rain Pryor. That Daughter’s Crazy is directed by Elzbieta Szoka, and produced by Sam Adelman and Daryl Sledge, and will…
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Death, desire, and divination are the threads running through Jónína Kirton’s debut collection of poems and lyric prose. Delicate and dark, the pieces are like whispers in the night – a haunted, quiet telling of truths the mind has locked away but the body remembers. Loosely autobiographical, these are the weavings of a wagon-goddess who…
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Tom Williams: The TNB Self-Interview The Nervous Breakdown 2015-06-24 Tom Williams, Professor of English Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky You’re a hard guy to track down. I know, I know. I’m sorry. I just have a lot of obligations and duties—many roles to play. What roles? Husband, father, son, brother, department chair, mentor, friend, book…
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Stop Denying Me My Blackness: A Latina Speaks About Race The Huffington Post 2015-08-04 Vanessa Mártir I’d been in Wellesley for all of a few weeks when it first happened. It was the fall of 1989, my first year in boarding school. I was walking with another ABC (A Better Chance) student back to our…
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A short interview with Fred Wah Jacket2 2015-03-05 Rob McLennan Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939, but he grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. He studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960s where he was one of the founding…
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Book Review: CAUCASIA MixedRaceBooks 2016-07-26 Bethany Lam Senna, Danzy, Caucasia: A Novel (New York: Riverhead, 1999) Two biracial sisters—one light-skinned, one dark—are separated as children. The younger, lighter girl grows into a troubled teenager, but she never forgets her beloved older sister. Can she find her sister again … and with her sister, her self?…