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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The 10 Best Black Books of 2013 (Non-Fiction) The AFRO 2013-12-24 Kam Williams, Special to the AFRO The 10 Best Black Books of 2013 (Non-Fiction) (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Edited by Yaba Blay, Ph.D. with photography by Noelle Theard Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by…
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Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego [Floyd Review] The Journal of San Diego History Volume 59, Number 4 (Fall 2013) pages 291-292 Carlton Floyd, Associate Professor of English University of San Diego Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego. By Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press,…
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‘A Dreadful Deceit’ argues against a ‘racial’ past The Los Angeles Times 2013-12-20 Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor of History University of California, Los Angeles Jacqueline Jones in ‘A Dreadful Deceit’ aims to debunk the ‘myth of race’ and the ‘American creation story’ but for the most part is unconvincing in her argument. Jacqueline Jones, A…
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Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age by Jonathan Kahn (review) Bulletin of the History of Medicine Volume 87, Number 4, Winter 2013 pages 708-709 DOI: 10.1353/bhm.2013.0067 Anne Pollock, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Culture Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia Jonatha Kahn, Race in a…
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In the 2010 census — when respondents could check more than one racial group — President Obama, the son of a black African father and a white mother, checked a single box: “Black, African-American or Negro.” Mr. Obama himself was unequivocal about it: “I self-identify as African-American — that’s how I am treated and that’s…
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“Dreadful Deceit”: Race is a myth Salon Sunday, 2013-12-15 Laura Miller, Staff Writer A historian argues that one of the defining elements of American culture is merely a “social fiction” Jacqueline Jones’ provocative new history, “Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” contains a startling sentence on its 265th…
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Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality by Anita González (review) Latin American Music Review Volume 34, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2013 pages 288-291 DOI: 10.1353/lat.2013.0019 Alex E. Chávez, Visiting Assistant Professor Latin American and Latino Studies Program University of Illinois, Chicago Anita González, Afro-Mexico: Dancing between Myth and Reality. With photographs by George O. Jackson and…
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Book Review of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race The Skanner Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington 2013-12-10 Kam Williams Yaba Blay and Noelle Théard (dir. of photography), (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race (Philadelphia: BLACKprint Press, 2013) Traditionally, in America, if you were just a teeny-weeny bit black, you’d always been considered black.…
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Book review: The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television Film Ireland Temple Bar, Dublin, Ireland 2013-11-19 Sarah Griffin Zélie Asava, The Black Irish Onscreen: Representing Black and Mixed-Race Identities on Irish Film and Television (Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien: Peter Lang, 2013) Sarah…