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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2010-03-09 Steven F. Riley Like most Americans, we received a letter in the mail yesterday from the US Census Bureau notifying us of the forthcoming census… Most relevant to this website is the option on the form for individuals to select one or more racial designations the potential consequences for public policy. As a result in…
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Passing as Mixed Race Open Salon 2010-03-03 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Alexandre Dumas has always been one of my favorite writers. Works like The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo and Georges took me on countless adventures in worlds and times much different from my own. But…
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Through Russwurm’s Eyes: ‘The Conditions and Prospects of Haiti’ Campus News Bowdoin College 2010-03-01 John B. Russwurm, the College’s first African-American graduate and thought to be the third African-American to graduate from an American college, delivered a commencement address in 1826 that resonates nearly 184 years later. The speech, “The Condition and Prospects of Haiti,”…
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Blended Nation: A Portrait of Mixed-Race America Yes! Magazine 2010-02-10 The fear and xenophobia in the aftermath of 9/11 got Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh thinking about how race and ethnicity are based on visual cues. They began photographing a network of mixed-race friends in the spring of 2002, eventually working with organizations like Swirl,…