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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Slavery’s Hidden History: An interview with historian Eric Foner American Libraries 2015-10-27 George M. Eberhart, Editor Eric Foner—Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, author of Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad (W. W. Norton, 2015), Columbia University professor, and author of more than 20 history texts—spoke to American Libraries about his latest book and…
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‘Monstress’: Inside The Fantasy Comic About Race, Feminism And The Monster Within The Hollywood Reporter 2015-11-03 Graeme McMillan “I didn’t realize how massive it was until I started writing it,” creator Marjorie Liu tells THR. Monstress, a new comic book series from Image Comics which launches this week, is all about hidden depths. Not only…
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Cachita’s Streets: The Virgin of Charity, Race, and Revolution in Cuba Duke University Press 2015 376 pages 27 illustrations Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-5918-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-5937-1 Jalane D. Schmidt, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Virginia Cuba’s patron saint, the Virgin of Charity of El Cobre, also called Cachita, is a potent symbol of Cuban…
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Valuing Blackness vs. Claiming “Mixedness” For Harriet 2014-10-30 Tamara Williams I remember being in 7th grade, and writing on the back of my folder all the things I was told by an older cousin I was “mixed” with. I had a desire to claim all I thought I was, but what was more interesting is…
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“I’m A Biracial Person Who…” | A Snapchat Story Chescaleigh 2015-10-26 Franchesca Ramsey
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What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her parents’ own stories as well as her own. She pieces together her family history and the story of…
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Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940
Interesting description of a group of people called Cajans around Mobile Alabama written before 1940 Alabama Pioneers 2015-11-06 Donna R. Causey THE CAJANS OF SOUTH ALABAMA Occupying the pine and oak woods of Mobile County in southern Alabama are a group of people of mixed racial blood known in that section as Indian Cajans. Living…