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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In “Géneros de Gente in Early Colonial Mexico,” an ambitious rereading of colonial history, Robert C. Schwaller proposes using the Spanish term géneros de gente (types or categories of people) as part of a more nuanced perspective on what these categories of difference meant and how they evolved. His work revises our understanding of racial…
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Today, seeing Black footballers playing the game at the very highest level is considered very normal. This, certainly, was not the case one hundred and forty years ago, and this is what makes the story of Andrew Watson so remarkable.
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DNA tests show fallacy of Jim Crow The Albuquerque Journal 2014-03-21 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University I am filming guest interviews for Season 2 of the genealogy series “Finding Your Roots,” airing on PBS this September. One of…
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Behind the Scenes of Loving, the Most Beautiful Love Story Ever Told Vogue 2016-10-17 (November 2016) Danzy Senna photographed by Mario Testino Photographed by Mario Testino, Vogue, November 2016 Meet Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton, the brilliant stars of Loving, Jeff Nichols’s sweeping portrait of an interracial couple fıghting for their right to marry in…
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Author Gerald Horne talked about his life and career and responded to viewer comments and questions. His most recent book is “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary.”
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Speaker Series: Memory, History, Race, and America’s National Parks Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 515 Malcolm X Boulevard New York, New York 10037 Tuesday, 2016-10-18, 18:00-20:00 EDT (Local Time) As a young girl Lauret Savoy developed a deeply personal connection to the American land, visiting numerous national parks with her parents. But as she traversed…
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One Drop of Love is Headed to Broadway! Theater Row 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues) New York, New York 10036 Thursday, 2016-10-13, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sold Out! Sunday, 2016-10-16, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love travels near…
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The Dilemma of Interracial Marriage: The Boston NAACP and the National Equal Rights League, 1912–1927 Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2016 Zebulon Miletsky, Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York On a wintry evening on February 1, 1843, a group of Boston’s African American citizens gathered…
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One man’s quest to preserve the haunting black history of Pocahontas Island The Washington Post 2016-09-26 Gregory S. Schneider POCAHONTAS ISLAND, Va. — He roams from house to house along the quiet streets of this little neighborhood, giving voice to its history and spirits. The collection of modest homes, tucked between an empty lumber factory…
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An interview with hip hop artist Akala Vlad TV 2016-06-10 Vladimir Lyubovny (DJ Vlad), Host U.K. artist Akala stopped by the Vlad Couch to discuss a plethora of topics surrounding the history of the impact of slavery throughout the world, Black culture, hip hop’s influence across the world, and what it means to be mixed-race…