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: History
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The Greeks didn’t have modern ideas of race. Did they see themselves as white, black – or as something else altogether?
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Fear of a Multiracial Planet: Loving’s Children and the Genocide of the White Race Fordham Law Review Volume 86, Issue 6 (2018) pages 2761-2771 Reginald Oh, Professor of Law Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio Part I analyzes the Loving decision striking down antimiscegenation laws and examines the segregationists’ justifications for antimiscegenation laws. Next, Part…
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A novelist learns about her mother’s long-held secret by search for what’s missing from her family photo albums.
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The History Guy celebrates National Nurses week with the forgotten history of Mary Seacole, who was a British nurse during the Crimean War.
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Curiosity about the photograph – who the girl was and what she was doing in Germany – set the award-winning film-maker off on a path that led to Where Hands Touch, a new movie starring Amandla Stenberg and George MacKay.
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A new book explores how racist biases continue to maintain a foothold in research today