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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A Sharp White Background Renegade 2015-04-02 Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence (aka the Blazian Invasion) how I learned what race feels like Just Words I am riding home from middle school in Washington, D.C. one day when a white man gets on my bus full of black faces and calls us nigger. My stomach drops. The boys at…
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The Perfect Struggle: MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry On Being Okay With Making Mistakes Vibe 2015-03-27 Shenequa Golding Melissa Harris-Perry In the history of high school drama, nerds tend to get the short end of the stick. While preferring to keep their noses buried in books, the academically zealous usually opt out of Mean Girl gossip and…
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Little White Lie Apple iTunes 2015-03-31 USA 01:06:00 Lacey Schwartz Also available via Amazon. Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a typical upper middle class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her identity, despite occasional remarks from those around her who wondered how a white girl could have…
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The Undertaker’s Daughter University of Pittsburgh Press October 2011 104 pages 6 x 9 ISBN: 9780822962007 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania View the Table of Contents here. Read a selection from the book here.
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The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey W. W. Norton & Company June 1999 208 pages 5.1 × 8 in Paperback ISBN: 978-0-393-31901-9 Toi Derricotte, Professor of English University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Black Notebooks is one of the most extraordinary and courageous accounts of race in this country, seen through the eyes of a…
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Race In The Jewish Community: A Mischling’s Perspective The Jerusalem Post 2015-03-30 Ella Bennett Introduction As a person of mixed-race black and maternal Jewish heritage, I am a mischling and feel highly motivated to stand equally against racism and anti-Semitism. When I go out and about in the Jewish community people naturally see my colour…
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How can I be Jewish when I am black? The Jerusalem Post 2015-02-09 Ella Bennett This is a hypothetical question that I’m always, almost asked by my many Jewish friends, associates and acquaintances. In my haste I’d assumed the answer to be obvious until I discovered the subtlety behind which the real dynamics of the…
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Lives of Afro-German men and women are focus of Canisius College exhibit The Buffalo News Buffalo, New York 2015-03-12 An exhibit that provides a look at the lives of Afro-German men and women living in Germany during the past three centuries will open March 24 in Alumni Hall, between the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library and…
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“I was living in a racial closet”: Black filmmaker Lacey Schwartz on growing up white Salon Sunday, 2015-03-22 Marissa Charles A photo of Lacey Schwartz and her mother, in “Little White Lie” (Credit: PBS) Schwartz talks to Salon about race, privilege, family secrets and her new PBS documentary “Little White Lie” For the first 18…