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
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- 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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An important addition to the literature of the period, Gentleman Jigger is the story of two brothers. Aeon, who passes for white and becomes a famous poet, faces the conundrums of love across the color line. Stuartt, who is openly homosexual-as was the author-joins the younger intellectuals of Harlem in defying authority figures, both black…
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Five Queers Of Color On What Connects Us To Our Complicated Or Mixed-Race Identities Autostraddle 2015-01-02 Hannah Hodson There is a sense of community that comes with being a person of color, but for some of us, settling into that community isn’t always comfortable. Because we don’t get a membership card along with our birth…
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Q&A with ‘Indian Blood’ author Andrew J. Jolivette University of Washington Press Blog 2016-06-24 In his new book Indian Blood: HIV & Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community, Andrew J. Jolivette examines the correlation between mixed-race identity and HIV/AIDS among Native American gay men and transgendered people, and provides an analysis of the emerging…
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Michelle Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 The New York Times 2016-06-18 William Grimes Michelle Cliff sometime in the 1980s. In 1975, she met the poet Adrienne Rich, who became her partner and died in 2012. Michelle Cliff, a Jamaican-American writer whose novels, stories and nonfiction essays drew on her multicultural…
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Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…
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How street kids in the Bronx taught me it’s OK to be biracial and gay Fusion 2016-05-18 Terry Blas As a “nerdy, Mexican, gay, Mormon child of the ’80s and ’90s,” cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity… until an experience in New York taught him a valuable lesson. … Read the entire…
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A Culture of Identity Choice: Assertions of Mixed Race, Transgender, and Other Identities and the Implications for Politics Stanford University Black Community Services Center The Brandon Room Wednesday, 2016-05-18, 12:00 PDT (Local Time) Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science Tufts University While Americans have always connected with different social identities, today we find the…
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black girls rule: celebrating brazilian women of colour i-D 2016-03-08 Hattie Collins Weudson Ribeiro’s new photobook Black Girl Power is shining a light on black female identity and LGBT women of colour in brazil. Brasilia based photographer, journalist and political scientist Weudson Ribeiro is known for his images celebrating Brazilian queer culture. In his latest…