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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50 African Americans Who Forever Changed Academia Online College 2012-01-24 Black History Month is celebrated every February as a time to recognize and honor African-Americans who made great contributions to some aspect of life in this country. Major figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks are often honored, but many lesser-known men and…
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It’s dual-race for 1 in 6 babies of mixed parentage The Straits Times Singapore 2012-01-11 Amanda Tan One in six newborn babies of mixed parentage was registered as having a double-barrelled race last year after a new policy kicked in allowing parents to do so. This full-year figure, released for the first time to The…
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ROMST 200.01: Critical Approaches to Mestizaje Duke University Spring 2012 Claudia Milian, Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies; African & African American Studies This seminar will examine critical theories of mestizaje, miscegenation, mixed race, and hybridity as articulated in Latino, Latin American, and African-American projects of racial identification and classification. In particular, the…
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Genome Study Points to Adaptation in Early African-Americans The New York Times 2012-01-02 Nicholas Wade, Science Reporter Researchers scanning the genomes of African-Americans say they see evidence of natural selection as their ancestors adapted to the harsh conditions of their new environment in America. The scientists, led by Li Jin of the Chinese Academy of…
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Brazil: Census “Reveals” Majority of Population is Black or Mixed Race Global Voices 2011-11-29 Written by: Paula Góes Translated by: Maisie Fitzpatrick [All links lead to Portuguese language pages except when otherwise noted.] For the first time in Brazilian history, the national census has shown that the majority of the population, 50.7% of a total…
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NEA grant and UW book contract awarded for War Baby/Love Child Laura Kina 2011-11-22 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University A National Endowment for the Arts – 2012 Art Works Grant has been awarded to a project for which I am the primary investigator (aka project…
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Students Break Out of Fixed-Race Box Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center 2011-11-15 Pamela Cytrynbaum, Instructor of Journalism Northwestern University My journalism students were brainstorming topics for their final story projects. I urged them to come up with compelling ideas that relate to their experiences but that push deeply into national…
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White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse Los Angeles Times 2011-11-07 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times/For the Booster Shots blog The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which…