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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Incognegro, A Graphic Mystery Vertigo 2008 136 pages Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-140121097 Mat Johnson, Author Warren Pleece, Artist Mat Johnson, winner of the prestigious Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction, constructs a fearless graphic novel that is both a page-turning mystery and a disturbing exploration of race and self-image in America, masterfully illustrated with rich period detail…
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Hapa-Palooza 2015 | Talking Hapa With Canadian Broadcaster Margaret Gallager Schema Magazine 2015-09-17 Marissa Willcox Hapa-palooza is here! Celebrating what Vancouver does best: mixed-heritage and blended cultural identities. Drawing from the Hawaiian origin of the word “hapa” (used by many people in Canada and U.S. who identify as being of mixed-heritage) Vancouver is a perfect…
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“Watch me go invisible”: Representing Racial Passing in Mat Johnson and Warren Pleece’s Incognegro South Central Review Volume 32, Number 3, Fall 2015 pages 45-69 Sinéad Moynihan, Senior Lecturer University of Exeter, Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom This essay examines the potential of the graphic novel as a vehicle to explore one of the most enduring…
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Misty Copeland Is Helping To Bring Dance Lessons To Rwandan Kids The Huffington Post 2015-11-25 Rahel Gebreyes, Editor, HuffPost Live The dancer just returned from Kigali, Rwanda, where shared her love of dance with children in the city. Ballerina Misty Copeland has made a name for herself breaking barriers for black dancers in the United…
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Michael Eric Dyson Discusses His Cover Story on Hillary Clinton The New Republic Minutes 2015-11-27 Mikaela Lefrak, Associate Editor “Obama will probably go down in history as one of the greatest presidents we’ve had. I just don’t think that the issue of race will earn him those kudos.” That’s professor Michael Eric Dyson’s opinion on…
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Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life [Varlack Review] 49th Parallel Issue 37 (2015-11-19) pages 66-68 ISSN: 1753-5894 Christopher Allen Varlack, Lecturer Department of English University of Maryland Allyson Hobbs, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. 382 pp.…
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PART 1: Dispatches from Dream City: Zadie Smith and Barack Obama Electric Lit 2010-10-19 The Editor Reading and re-reading Zadie Smith’s spookily empathetic essay about Dreams of My Father and the natural linguistic flexibility of the biracial, upwardly mobile figure, the inevitable thought occurred to me: Is Zadie Smith the Barack Obama of literature? Consider…
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The Quadroon; or, A Lover’s Adventures In Louisiana Robert M. DeWitt 1856 430 pages Captain Mayne Reid (1818-1883) Read the entire book here.
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This week marks the release of Loving Day, the new novel from Mat Johnson, author of “Pym,” “Drop,” “Hunting in Harlem,” “Incognegro,” and others. Johnson and I spoke last week on Skype.
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The Octoroon, a Tragic Mulatto Tale of the Old South Jubilo! The Emancipation Century 2011-01-23 Alan Skerrett, Jr, Editor Washington, D.C. The Octoroon is a tragic mulatto play by Irish playwright and actor Dion Boucicault. It opened on Broadway in 1859, just a few years before the American Civil War. The play was based on…