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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Category: Media Archive
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This Historian Wants You To Know The Real Story Of Southern Food The Salt: What’s On Your Plate Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2016-10-01 Erika Beras Michael Twitty wants credit given to the enslaved African-Americans who were part of Southern cuisine’s creation. Here he is in period costume at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia estate.…
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What is “White”? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 In an increasingly diverse country, White Americans are an emerging racial minority. #EmergingUS travelled to one of the Whitest states, Iowa, to ask Iowans what it means to be White in a changing America. Hosted by Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of #EmergingUS…
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What are you? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 How do you describe yourself if you’re mixed? “What are you?” is a common question posed to mixed race people, usually preceded by, “Where are you from, from?” In other words: I can’t tell what you are. In this #EmergingUS video, we explore the…
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White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people USA Today 2016-10-01 Gregory Korte, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in…
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Mixed Match documentary explores difficult search for multi-ethnic donors CBC Radio-Canada 2016-10-01 Emotional documentary about mixed-race patients seeking bone marrow, stem cell donors, a call to action It means a lot to film maker Jeff Chiba Stearns to have his new documentary Mixed Match showing at the Vancouver International Film Festival, a multi-cultural city he calls home. Stearns ancestry…
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A space of their own? Yale News 2016-09-21 Noah Kim, Staff Reporter Multiracial students at Yale Haleigh Larson ’18 spent her North Dakotan childhood in a community she characterizes as “almost completely Scandinavian.” She and her two siblings, the adopted children of white parents, are some of the few residents of color in the entire…
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Mixed race children celebrate their ‘cultural cocktail’ heritage Times Live Johannesburg, South Africa 2016-09-23 Nomahlubi Jordaan, Courts and Law Reporter Food‚ language and tradition of diverse cultures are the essence of the heritage of children born from multiracial families. Mark Andrew Sunners‚ a hip hop producer‚ was born in Liverpool in England from a white…
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A new exhibition in London challenges the perceptions of what Irish people look like
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Canada’s racial divide: Confronting racism in our own backyard The Globe and Mail 2016-09-26 Tavia Grant, Reporter Nova Browning Rutherford, who is half black and half white, and has lived in Ontario, Alberta and Los Angeles, poses for a photo at her home in Mississauga, Ont. on Friday. (Michelle Siu for The Globe and Mail)…
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Afro-Latinos Have a Well-Deserved Place at the New National Museum of African American History Remezcla 2016-09-27 Yara Simón, Trending Editor This weekend marked the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. After Rep. John Lewis and others spent decades battling Congress for funding, the museum opened its doors on Sunday from…