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: History
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Looking back at lives of black GIs in Dorset Dorset Echo Weymouth, Dorset, England 2013-06-12 James Tourgout A NEW exhibition is highlighting the stories of black soldiers in Dorset during World War Two. It explores the lives of African American servicemen who headed to Dorset to train for D-Day and is showing at Weymouth library…
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Black Indians, Pompey Fixico w/ historian & author Dr. Katz The Gist of Freedom BlogTalk Radio 2013-05-16 Leslie Gist, Host Join The Gist of Freedom as we welcome Pompey Fixico and William L. Katz. Pompey Fixico ancestors fought US slave-catchers and military units for 42 years in Florida. Mr. Katz and Mr.Fixico will discuss the…
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Marriage, Melanin, and American Racialism Reviews in American History Volume 41, Number 2, June 2013 pages 282-291 DOI: 10.1353/rah.2013.0048 Heidi Ardizzone, Assistant Professor of American Studies St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri Adele Logan Alexander, Parallel Worlds: The Remarkable Gibbs-Hunts and the Enduring (In)significance of Melanin. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 375 pages. Photographs,…
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‘Plessy v. Ferguson’: Who Was Plessy? The Root 2013-06-10 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro: Learn about the man whose case led to decades of legal segregation. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 35: Who was the Plessy in the Plessy v. Ferguson…
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Family Money explores the histories of formerly enslaved women who tried to claim inheritances left to them by deceased owners, the household traumas of mixed-race slaves, post-Emancipation calls for reparations, and the economic fallout from anti-miscegenation marriage laws.
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Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race in Transnational Indonesia University of Hawai‘i Press March 2013 192 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8248-3664-1 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8248-3736-5 L. Ayu Saraswati, Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies University of Hawai‘i In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia’s changing beauty ideals and traces them…
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Photo of the Week: An Interracial Family in 1962 The Brooklyn Historical Society Blog The Brooklyn Historical Society 2013-06-05 Sady Sullivan, Director of Oral History The Bibuld Family, ca. 1962, V1989.22.14; Bob Adelman photographs of Brooklyn Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) demonstrations collection, V1989.002; Brooklyn Historical Society. This photograph from the Brooklyn Congress of Racial…
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Black in Latin America New York University Press July 2011 270 pages 50 illustrations Hardback ISBN: 9780814732984 Paperback ISBN: 9780814738184 eBook ISBN: Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor of History Harvard University 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous…