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: Book/Video Reviews
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‘Loving’ revisits a landmark Supreme Court case with radical restraint The Washington Post 2016-11-10 Ann Hornaday, Film Critic ‘Loving’ is a quietly radical movie. A portrait of Richard and Mildred Loving, who became unwitting activists for interracial marriage when they wed in 1958, this gentle, deeply affecting story dispenses with the usual conventions of stirring appeals…
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Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. The New York Times 2016-11-03 Manohla Dargis, Movie Critic Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in the Jeff Nichols film “Loving.” Credit Ben Rothstein/Focus Features There are few movies that speak to the American moment as movingly —…
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I’m Not the Nanny: Multiracial Families and Colorism Book Review The New York Times 2016-11-03 Allyson Hobbs, Associate Professor of History Stanford University SAME FAMILY, DIFFERENT COLORS: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families By Lori L. Tharps 203 pp. Beacon Press. $25.95. In Danzy Senna’s 1998 novel “Caucasia,” two sisters — Cole and Birdie —…
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‘The Sympathizer,’ by Viet Thanh Nguyen Book Review The New York Times 2015-04-02 Philip Caputo The more powerful a country is, the more disposed its people will be to see it as the lead actor in the sometimes farcical, often tragic pageant of history. So it is that we, citizens of a superpower, have viewed…
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Review of Jonathan Kahn, Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in the Post-Genomic Age The American Journal of Bioethics Volume 15, 2015 – Issue 10 pages W4-W5 DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2015.1067339 Nathan Nobis, Associate Professor of Philosophy Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia In 2005 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the drug…
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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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Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians by Angela Pulley Hudson (review) The Journal of the Civil War Era Volume 6, Number 3, September 2016 pages 439-442 DOI: 10.1353/cwe.2016.0058 Adam Pratt, Assistant Professor of History University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White…
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The Ambiguous and the Mundane: Racial Performance and Asian Americans Contemporary Literature Volume 57, Number 2, Summer 2016 pages 292-300 Josephine D. Lee, Professor of English and Asian American University of Minnesota Jennifer Ann Ho, Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Rutgers University Press, 2015. xi + 215 pp. $90.00…