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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He built his career on the systematic oppression of blacks and Native Americans, becoming one of the country’s most influential white supremacists. For more than three decades, from 1912 until 1946, Walter Ashby Plecker used his position as head of Virginia’s Bureau of Vital Statistics to champion policies designed to protect what he considered a master…
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The alchemy of American music as it relates to Native Americans is such a voluminous subject that, inevitably, the fascinating “Rumble” can’t do it justice.
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Passing: Intersections of Race, Gender, Sexuality and Class Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2017-07-17 379 pages Dana Christine Volk Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In ASPECT: Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural…
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“Blood Will Tell” reveals the underlying centrality of “blood” that shaped official ideas about who was eligible to be defined as Indian by the General Allotment Act in the United States. Katherine Ellinghaus traces the idea of blood quantum and how the concept came to dominate Native identity and national status between 1887 and 1934…
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Writers explore how and why the phenomenon of “passing” both shocks and fascinates.
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Danzy Senna, “New People, A Novel” (New York: Riverhead, 2017)
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From the bestselling author of “Caucasia,” a subversive and engrossing novel of race, class and manners in contemporary America.
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Jennifer J. Roberts and ex-gangster Pat Nee take you to their ‘hood for a surprising story of growing up Black in Southie.
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In Passing: Arab American Poetry and the Politics of Race Ethnic Studies Review Volume 28, Issue 2 (2005) pages 17-36 Katherine Wardi-Zonna Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania Anissa Janine Wardi Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Racial passing has a long history in America. In fact, there are manifold reasons for passing, not the least of which is…
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From August 4th to 6th, 2017, artists and community organizers from the Twin Cities will host the first MidWest Mixed Conference, to explore themes connected to multiracial identities with art at the center.