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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“I’m Aboriginal. I’m Just Not The Aboriginal You Expect Me To Me.” // REVIEW OF “Am I Black Enough For You?” By Anita Heiss #AWW2016 A Keyboard and An Open Mind: The Blog of Avid Reader and Writer, Emily Witt 2016-08-15 Emily Witt Title: Am I Black Enough For You? Author: Anita Heiss Genre: Memoir/Non-fiction…
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Like a human tsunami, World War II brought two million American servicemen to the South Pacific where they left a human legacy of some thousands of children. “Mothers’ Darlings of the South Pacific” traces the intimate relationships that existed in the wartime South Pacific between U.S. servicemen and Indigenous women, and considers the fate of…
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Secrets of Nation Inside Story 2016-07-15 Ann McGrath, Professor of History, Director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Middle ground: detail from Bartering for a Bride, or The Trappers Bride, by Alfred Jacob Miller, c. 1845. Wikipedia Commons The buried secrets of Australia’s frontier share features with…
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‘A New Holland Half-Caste’: Sealer and Whaler Tommy Chaseland History Australia Volume 5, Issue 1, 2008 pages 08.1-08.15 DOI: 10.2104/ha080008 Lynette Russell, Professor Monash University, Australia This article discusses the life of Tommy Chaseland, a ‘half-caste’ Aboriginal son of a convict who became a renowned sealer and whaler and emigrated to New Zealand in the…
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Hybrid by Robert Wood Mascara Literary Review 2015-10-04 Robert Wood Robert Wood grew up in a multicultural household in Perth. He holds degrees from the Australian National University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a National Undergraduate Scholar and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow respectively. He has edited for Margaret River Press, Wild Dingo…
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Amrita Hepi’s New Dance Collab Explores Authenticity, Race & The Politics Of Passing Oyster Paddington, New South Wales, Australia 2016-05-10 Jerico Mandybur Local hero Amrita Hepi is showcasing her new dance piece ‘Passing’ — with costumes by Honey Long and sound by Laverne of Black Vanilla — alongside Jahra Rager at Next Wave Festival this…
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Staking Claim: Settler Colonialism and Racialization in Hawai’i University of Arizona Press 2016-05-28 232 pages 6.00 x 9.00 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8165-0251-6 Judy Rohrer, Director of the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR); Assistant Professor in Diversity and Community Studies University of Western Kentucky, Bowling Green, Kentucky Exploring how racialization is employed to further colonialism…
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Just as World War I introduced Americans to Europe, making an indelible impression on thousands of farmboys who were changed forever “after they saw Paree,” so World War II was the beginning of America’s encounter with the East – an encounter whose effects are still being felt and absorbed. No single place was more symbolic…
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Amrita Hepi interview Time Out Sydney 2015-05-24 Dee Jefferson, Arts & Culture Editor Sydney knows – and loves – Amrita for her Hollaback nights and Beyoncé dance classes, but her latest project is far more fierce Amrita Hepi was in the final creative phase of her dance-theatre work Passing, with New Zealand-born dancer and spoken-word…
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Black Velvet: redefining and celebrating Indigenous Australian women in art The Conversation (US Pilot) 2016-05-08 Sandra Phillips, Lecturer Creative Writing and Literary Studies, School of Media, Entertainment and Creative Arts, Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia *Warning: This article contains graphic language that may upset some readers, while Aboriginal and Torres…