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: Book/Video Reviews
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Great Lakes Creoles A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860 by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (review) Ohio Valley History Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2016 pages 81-83 Margo Lambert, Assistant Professor of History Blue Ash College, University of Cinicinnati Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands,…
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Filling in Gaps in the Historical Record: Accuracy, Authenticity, and Closure in Ann Rinaldi’s Wolf by the Ears Children’s Literature Volume 44, 2016 pages 21-60 DOI: 10.1353/chl.2016.0018 Brian Dillon, Professor of English Montana State University-Billings Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears, (New York: Scholastic, 1993). This novel, narrated by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ daughter,…
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Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority Ethnic and Racial Studies Published online: 2016-06-01 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2016.1190852 Remi Joseph-Salisbury University of Leeds Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority, by Sandra Winn Tutwiler, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xv + 241 pp., £29.95 (paperback), ISBN-13 978-1138021938 Mixed-race youth and schooling offers a welcome contribution to a sparse…
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LA poets document the city in ‘Coiled Serpent’ anthology Los Angeles Daily News 2016-03-25 Richard Guzman, Arts and Entertainment Reporter Long Beach Press Telegram As students take part in a guitar workshop inside his Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in Sylmar, Los Angeles Poet Laureate Luis Rodriguez grabs a copy of the latest book…
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Where Are You Really From? Culture Northern Ireland 2010-04-10 Joanne Savage Race, republicanism and a mothers love in Tim Brannigan’s memoir Peggy Brannigan met Michael Ekue at a dance in Belfast in 1965. She was from Beechmount; he was a medic from Ghana. Their eyes met, they danced and sparks flew. She was gorgeous and…
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Recovering the Afro-Metropolis Before Windrush Christian John Høgsbjerg University of Leeds Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal Volume 13, Issue 1 (The Caribbean Radical Tradition) May 2016 Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2015), 410 pp. In Black London, Marc Matera’s wide-ranging historical…
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Uncovering a Tale of Rocket Science, Race and the ’60s The New York Times 2016-05-22 Cara Buckley, Culture Reporter Janelle Monáe, left, Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer in “Hidden Figures,” which is slated for release in January. Credit Hopper Stone/20th Century Fox ATLANTA — Taraji P. Henson hates math, and Octavia Spencer has a…
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“Race” and Science The Common Reader: A Journal of The Essay 2016-04-19 Garland Allen, Professor Emeritus of Biology Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri A new book traces the complicated legacy of race’s biological conceptions. Michael Yudell; J. Craig Venter (fore.), Race Unmasked: Biology and Race in the Twentieth Century (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014)…