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: Philosophy
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PHIL 3830. Philosophy and Race University of North Carolina, Charlotte Cross-listed as AFRS 3830. This course both examines the role of the concept of race in the Western philosophical canon, and uses current philosophical texts and methods to examine Western discourses of race and racism. Issues such as whiteness, double consciousness, the black/white binary, Latino…
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This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, dissertations, oral histories…
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Why race still matters Dædalus Volume 134, Number 1 (Winter 2005) Pages 102-116 DOI: 10.1162/0011526053124460 Ian Hacking, Professor of Philosphy University of Toronto Why has race mattered in so many times and places? Why does it still matter? Put more precisely, why has there been such a pervasive tendency to apply the category of race…
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Between black and white: Rethinking Coloured identity African Identities Volume 1, Issue 2 (2003) pages 253-280 DOI: 10.1080/1472584032000173139 Pal Ahluwalia, Pro Vice Chancellor of Education, Arts and Social Sciences University of South Australia Abebe Zegeye Goldsmiths College, University of London Identity who we are, where we come from, what we are is difficult to maintain…
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In this exploration of race and racism, noted scholar Lewis R. Gordon offers a critique of recent scholarship in postcolonial Africana philosophy and critical race theory, and suggests alternative models that respond to what he calls our contemporary neocolonial age; an age in which cultural, intellectual, and economic forms of colonial domination persist.
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Does ‘Race’ Have a Future? Philosophy & Public Affairs Volume 35, Issue 4 (Fall 2007) pages 293–317 DOI: 10.1111/j.1088-4963.2007.00115.x Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy Columbia University There are simple and powerful arguments against the biological reality of race. Although the phenotypic characteristics, the manifest features that have traditionally been used to divide our…