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
- 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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Growing Up On Burritos and Black-Eyed Peas: An Autoethnography of Multiracial Identity Development Georgia State University 2014-05-16 210 pages Marie Castro Bruner A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Teaching and Learning in the Department of Middle-Secondary Education in the College of Education Georgia State University…
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I was a typical Southie kid, one of six, born to a single mother, raised in a triple-decker, surrounded by Whitey Bulger’s violence and fierce Irish pride. There was only one thing that kept me on the outside: Despite my mother’s claims to the contrary, we were black.
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On blackness and autism, identity and essence Ray Hemachandra @ Golden Moon Publishing: Autism, spirit, beauty. Compassion. Love. Kindness. Sparks of light. 2014-02-24 Ray Hemachandra Often I’m asked “What are you?” Racial and ethnic identity still inform so much in our culture. The question asked really is a question of identity. “What are you?” masks…
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“The Box Marked Black” is coming to Willamette University Oct. 24-25 Willamette University News Salem, Oregon 2014-10-02 What does it mean to be black? Is it the shade of your skin or the kink in your hair? Is it learned? These questions are explored in “The Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing…
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Performance added for one-woman play at Willamette U. The Salem Statesman-Journal Salem, Oregon 2014-10-13 Tom Mayhall Rastrelli, Fine Arts & Culture Writer Damaris Webb will debut her one-woman play “The Box Marked Black: Tales from a Halfrican American growing up Mulatto. With sock puppets!” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 25 at M. Lee Pelton Theatre,…
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Who Here Is A Negro? Michigan Quarterly Review Volume 53, Issue 1 (Winter 2014) Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Last fall I made a migration south. The promise of a year’s sabbatical and an escape from the demands of teaching and…
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Who Do You Think You Are? Reggie Yates [with Reggie Yates] Who Do You Think You Are? BBC One Series 11: Episode 8 of 10 Running Time: 00:59:09 First Aired: 2014-09-25 Presenter and DJ Reggie Yates grew up knowing very little about his father’s side of the family. Reggie sets out on the trail of…
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Identity In Pieces: When You Don’t Know Where You Count The Aerogram: A curated take on South Asian art, literature, life and news 2014-10-01 Jaya Saxena Queens, New York Last summer, I wore a pink and yellow sari to my cousin’s wedding. As my Indian family lingered in the hotel lobby, dressed up and waiting…
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What It’s Like To Be Half-Japanese Thought Catalog 2014-10-08 Michelle Reimann Eurasian, half-Japanese, bi-racial, mixed race, hafu, hapa, double, hybrid, dual culture, TCK (third culture kid,) the axis of evil (yeah, yeah: I am German and Japanese, get over it.) However you choose to describe me my lineage is often one of the most frequently…