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
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- 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 jokes, comments and stereotypes always flow so freely. I speak up every time.
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Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967 Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections Columbia Center for Oral History Columbia University, New York, New York Digitized 2010 (Originally recorded in 1967) DOI: 10.7916/d8-cpb1-1692 Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) interviewed by William R. Keylor (1944-). Listen to the interview here.
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Folx have touched my hair w/o consent, stared too long, or stumbled around ways to ask my ethnic background w/o wanting to come off as offensive. I have been asked, more times than I can count, ‘What are you?’
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In sinuous language, with candour, openness, and surprising humour, Dunic explores sibling and romantic love and the complexities of being a biracial person looking for completion in another.
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On Passing and Not Trying to Pass My Jewish Learning 2015-07-22 Tema Smith I am black, and I am Jewish. I’ve always found comfort in the and of my identity — that simple part of speech that joins together two disparate things: two families, two histories, two cultures, two heritages, two skin colors, two lineages…
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For years, I passed as white. Only later did I realize the advantages I was getting made me complicit in a system that oppressed others.
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Rebecca Hall said Saturday that her mother told her Hall’s directorial debut, “Passing,” liberated her family, as Hall’s grandfather was a Black man who decided to pass for White in Detroit.
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‘Passing’ filmmaker Rebecca Hall shares the personal story behind her movie Fresh Air National Public Radio 2021-11-30 Terri Gross, Host Rebecca Hall (right) works on the set of Passing with actors Ruth Negga (left) and Tessa Thompson. Netflix Actor/filmmaker Rebecca Hall had what she describes as a “real gasp” moment when she first read Nella…