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: Family/Parenting
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Taye Diggs, Embrace Blackness In Mixed Families: They’re Not Mutually Exclusive Global Grind 2015-10-18 Jada Gomez, Managing Editor Taye Diggs is set to release a second children’s book, Mixed Me, to teach young biracial children how to embrace their multicultural, multi-hued identities. But before it hits shelves, it needs a few edits… from a multiracial…
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The Color of Love Lecture & Book Signing University of South Florida Tampa Library Grace Allen Room, 4th Floor 4202 E. Fowler Ave. LIB122 Tampa, Florida Monday, 2015-11-16, 11:00-13:00 EST (Local Time) Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, Assistant Professor in Sociology and ISLAC Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates [in her new book, The Color of Love:…
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The day my daughter realized she isn’t white The Washington Post 2015-11-03 Lisa Papademetriou “Mama,” my 4-year-old daughter said. “Did you know that darks and lights didn’t used to be able to go to the same places?” “What?” I asked. It was bedtime, and I was tired. I wondered vaguely how Zara knew so much…
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Williams: A positive among the attack ads in the Gecker-Sturtevant race Richmond Times-Dispatch Richmond, Virginia 2015-11-02 Michael Paul Williams, Columnist During the 2000 Republican primary in South Carolina, John McCain was the target of a whisper campaign that he’d fathered a black child out of wedlock. McCain, who in reality had an adopted Bangladeshi daughter,…