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.
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Category: Autobiography
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‘Lightskin Guys Be Like…’ BlogbyBilal: Living in NW London my whole life until I was whisked away by magic pumpkin chariot into Cambridge for the fairy tale years of my life – my ramblings of my tour of the North. 2015-06-18 Bilal Harry Khan “Lightskin boys be so moist” “Those guys are bare in their…
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Bliss Broyard’s father kept his black roots a secret his whole life. Her journey of self-discovery led her to the understanding that believing the results of a DNA cheek swab to be more meaningful than one’s experiences is a ridiculous notion
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Before Rachel Dolezal, there was Walter White The Christian Science Monitor 2015-06-15 Randy Dotinga The man known as ‘Mr. NAACP’ was blonde, blue-eyed and 5/32nd black, all of which provoked an outcry similar to that over contemporary NAACP official Rachel Dolezal. Walter White, known as “Mr. NAACP,” didn’t look black. He had blue eyes and…
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The Story of a White Woman Who Turned Herself Black and Went to Live and Work in Harlem and Mississippi Delta.
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4th Annual “What Are You?” with Lacey Schwartz’s “Little White Lie” Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Monday, 2015-06-08, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) A BHS “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” program. Top: Lacey Schwartz, photo by Michael Hill; Bottom: Lise Funderburg, photo by Tigist Tsegie On the week of Loving Day 2015,…
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Racism under a Friendly Guise Joy Huang Stoffers: Writer and Novelist Saturday, 2015-05-09 Joy Huang Stoffers racism, n. A belief that one’s own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one’s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial…
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The Devil that Danced on the Water: A Daughter’s Quest HarperCollins 2002 416 pages Hardcover ISBN: 0002570653 Paperback ISBN: 0006531261 Aminatta Forna An evening in 1974 when she was ten years old, Aminatta Forna opened the door to two men, members of the state secret police, come to take her father. A year later he…
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I had always understood my ancestry to be a tangle of African slaves, free men of color, French and Spanish immigrants, British colonists, Native Americans—but in what proportion?