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
- 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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As an American, I follow my roots like trails across the globe. My mother is from Kansas and is of German descent, and my deceased father was black with roots in North Carolina, and before then, Africa. Arguably you can trace all of us back to Africa. But my parents’ union created me: a black…
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The Forgotten People: Cane River’s Creoles of Color (revised edition) Louisiana State University Press November 2013 (First published in 1977) 480 pages 6.00 x 9.00 inches 25 halftones, 3 maps, 3 charts Paperback ISBN: 9780807137130 Gary B. Mills (1944–2002), Professor of History University of Alabama Revised by: Elizabeth Shown Mills Foreword by: H. Sophie Burton…
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Let’s Learn From the Past: Cumberland Posey Jr. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2013-08-29 Michele Sneddon, History Center Communications Assistant As a standout player, manager and owner, Cumberland Willis Posey Jr. built the Homestead Grays into one of the most successful franchises in Negro League baseball history. Born on June 20, 1890, Posey grew up in a…
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Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands [DeLeón Review] Journal of American History Volume 99, Issue 4 (March 2013) page 1284 DOI: 10.1093/jahist/jas678 Arnoldo DeLeón, Professor of History Angelo State University, San Angelo Texas Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. By Grace…
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Are Latinos “White”? Jesus For Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-08-30 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Hundreds of years of cultural politics underly the current debate over the proper racial categorization for Latinos. For the greater part of U.S.…