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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Skin Deep Meets Stella Corradi Skin Deep: Race + Culture London, England, United Kingdom 2016-07-08 Anuradha Henriques, Editor East London writer and director Stella Corradi talks fantasy, addiction and her short film “Little Soldier” Stella Corradi, East London born and bred, is the writer and director behind the short film Little Soldier. Loosely influenced by…
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G. Reginald Daniel, Machado de Assis: Multiracial Identity and the Brazilian Novelist (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012), pp. xi + 338, \$74.95, hb. [Gledson Review] Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 47 / Issue 03 / August 2015 pages 607-608 DOI: 10.1017/S0022216X15000528 John Gledson, Emeritus Professor of Brazilian Studies University of Liverpool G. Reginald Daniel,…
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Alabama’s Anti-Miscegenation Statutes Alabama Review Volume 68, Number 4, October 2015 pages 345-365 DOI: 10.1353/ala.2015.0033 Jeremy W. Richter, Associate Webster, Henry, Lyons, Bradwell, Cohan & Speagle, P.C., Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Birmingham, Alabama In the immediate aftermath of the civil war and, more specifically, the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, various southern states began…
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Uncanny Compulsions: Automatism, Trauma, and Memory in Of One Blood Callaloo Volume 39, Number 2, Spring 2016 pages 473-492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2016.0076 Joshua Lam, Adjunct Professor, American Literature and Composition State University of New York, Buffalo In recent years, critics have begun to frame slavery in the United States in terms of haunting and trauma studies,…
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Meet Edith Cumbo, Nation Builder Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-07-24 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. We celebrated our 2016 Cumbo Family Reunion last weekend July 15-17 in Williamsburg, Virginia. One of the reasons we chose Williamsburg was because Colonial Williamsburg features a historical figure – Edith Cumbo – who…
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A Mixed-Race, Mixed-Marriage Cumbo Family Website: Exploring Cumbo Family Roots and Branches across Generations 2016-05-06 Andre Kearns Washington, D.C. My great-great grandparents Edward Biggs and Florence Cumbo were both listed as Colored on their 1890 marriage license. So why am I classifying their union as a mixed marriage? It is because Edward Biggs was born…
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Painful but necessary: Why I stopped putting off the racism talk with my daughter CBC News 2016-07-01 Samantha Kemp-Jackson Toronto, Ontario, Canada Demonstrators stand in front of the East Baton Rouge Parish City Hall doors on Monday. (Reuters) Talk opens door to a world where ignorance is not bliss and racism must be confronted head-on…
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Pensive in Prague: Examining Identity Abroad, June 20th The Harvard Independent 2016-07-24 Gabby Aguirre This is the second in a series of summer blog posts where the author reflects on her time as a first-generation Latina studying abroad in Prague. You can find the first blog post here. The date is June 20th, and I’m…
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Banished from the tribe Inter-County Leader/Washburn County Register Cooperative-Owned Newspapers Serving Northwest Wisconsin 2016-07-25 Ed Emerson Gary King WEBSTER – Tony Ammann is the grandson of former longtime St. Croix Chippewa chief and traditional “midewiwin” spiritual leader Archie Mosay. His mother, Archie’s daughter, has Department of Interior papers certifying her blood quantum requirement to be…