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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My Bondage and My Freedom Yale University Press 2014 (originally published in 1855 by Miller, Orton & Mulligan) 432 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780300190595 Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) Introduction and Notes by David W. Blight Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition…
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Things That Must Not Be Forgotten is a beautifully written collection of Michael David Kwan’s childhood experiences in China during the 1930s and 1940s. Born into privilege, David saw his pampered life disintegrate as the Japanese overran China. His father, the wealthy administrator for China’s railroads, took a position in the pro-Japanese government to work…
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Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides Salon Wednesday, 2014-03-12 Eternity E. Martis London, Ontario, Canada People can’t seem to understand that I’m not either black or Anglo-Pakistani, but all of the above My mother is Anglo-Pakistani and my father is Jamaican (and a quarter Chinese). I grew up with my…
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Being Mixed in Today’s America Diverse: Issues in Higher Education 2014-02-07 Jonathan Ng California State University, San Bernardino For me, being mixed ethnicity has been a multiple-way street ― like a giant intersection. I am Black, White and Chinese; however, based on my skin color, most people classify me as Black. I look racially ambiguous,…
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American Cocktail: A “Colored Girl” in the World Harvard University Press 2014-02-17 352 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches 20 halftones Hardcover ISBN 9780674073050 Anita Reynolds (1901-1980), actress, dancer, model, and psychologist with Howard Miller, Professor of Education and Chair in the Department of Secondary Education Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, New York Edited by: George Hutchinson,…
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Black History Month celebrates both race and ethnicity The Red & Black University Georgia Student Newspaper Athens, Georgia 2014-07-02 Mariya Lewter, Sphomore Decatur, Georgia As a person of “mixed” race, I’ve always found it difficult to truly racially identify myself. Not because I don’t know who I am, but because others refused to accept my…
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How I Learned To Feel Undesirable Code Switch: Fronter of Race, Culure and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-02-04 Noah Cho For the past few weeks, we’ve convened a conversation about romance across racial and cultural lines. Some of the most eloquent accounts we encountered came from a Bay Area junior high school teacher named Noah…
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The life story of a man who crossed the color line to fight for civil rights
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Editorial January 2014: On Reading Two Recent Memoirs by Afro-Germans The Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) January 2014 Gundolf Graml, Associate Professor of German and Director of German Studies Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia Two recent memoirs by German authors with an African connection emphasize that German history cannot be written without including the…