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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- 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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Dear Mister Shakespeare – inspired by Othello British Council 2016-10-07 Multimedia visual artist Phoebe Boswell has written an original piece, ‘Dear Mister Shakespeare’, in which she questions Shakespeare on the inherent racial tensions within his writing of Othello in the 1600s, and how these tensions continue to resonate today. The film, directed by Shola Amoo,…
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FOR the first time during Black History Month, an exhibition celebrating mixed race Irish has gone on display in the London Irish Centre.
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One Drop of Love is Headed to Broadway! Theater Row 410 West 42nd Street (between 9th and 10th Avenues) New York, New York 10036 Thursday, 2016-10-13, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Sold Out! Sunday, 2016-10-16, 14:00 EDT (Local Time) How does our belief in ‘race’ affect our most intimate relationships? One Drop of Love travels near…
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The Dilemma of Interracial Marriage: The Boston NAACP and the National Equal Rights League, 1912–1927 Historical Journal of Massachusetts Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2016 Zebulon Miletsky, Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York On a wintry evening on February 1, 1843, a group of Boston’s African American citizens gathered…
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VIFF honours B.C. filmmakers Ann Marie Fleming, Kevan Funk, Julia Hutchings, Jessica Parsons, and Jennifer Chiu The Georgia Straight Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 2016-10-11 Charlie Smith Ann Marie Fleming’s Window Horses won the prize for Best Canadian Film as well as the B.C. Film Award at this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival. The Vancouver International…
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Why Self-Identifying As Multiracial Is Still New And Not Automatic For Me Swirl Nation Blog 2016-10-12 Sarah Ratliff I grew up in New York City during the 1960s and 70s. Although I grew up in a very racially, ethnically and culturally diverse area—which included several interracial families—it wasn’t the norm to raise kids in that…
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WHEN she was growing up in County Tipperary in the 1960s, Lorraine Maher (pictured) met no other black people and on the few occasions they came into her midst she would avoid them.
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One man’s quest to preserve the haunting black history of Pocahontas Island The Washington Post 2016-09-26 Gregory S. Schneider POCAHONTAS ISLAND, Va. — He roams from house to house along the quiet streets of this little neighborhood, giving voice to its history and spirits. The collection of modest homes, tucked between an empty lumber factory…
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Dr. Zebulon Miletsky discusses his journey through the multiple worlds of race and identity as he shares his experiences with researching his own family genealogy, the various “routes” this process led him to and how “tracing your routes” can lead to more than just knowledge about your background–it’s about how we treat one another along…
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How the cinematic act of passing embodied, exacerbated, and sometimes alleviated American fears