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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Oxherding Tale: A Novel Scribner (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) 1982 208 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780743264495 eBook ISBN: 9780743277419 Charles Johnson, Pollock Professor of English University of Washington, Seattle One night in the antebellum South, a slave owner and his African-American butler stay up to all hours until, too drunk to face their wives,…
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Where are all the interracial children’s books? The Washington Post 2015-01-20 Nevin Martell Browsing the shelves of the children’s section at bookstores can be a depressing experience for the parent of an interracial youngster. I’m a mutt mixture Caucasian with roots going back to Western Europe and beyond, while my wife is from Ghana. We…
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Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the British Empire [Paterson Review] The British Scholar Society Book of The Month November 2014 Lachy Paterson University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Salesa, Damon Ieremia, Racial Crossings: Race, Intermarriage, and the Victorian British Empire (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). 308 pp. $US 45 (paperback). Race has always…
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Some other race The Economist 2013-02-09 How should America count its Hispanics? THE noisy debate over how to fix America’s immigration system is mainly about the large and rapidly growing Hispanic minority. Behind this hums a quieter debate over how they should be counted. Every ten years the American government conducts a census of its…
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Half Like Me Fusion Thursday, 2015-01-22, 22:00 EST (21:00 CST, 19:00 PST) (Full Schedule) Prompted by an upcoming family reunion, Al Madrigal—actor, comedian and “Daily Show” correspondent—takes us on his journey from full-on red-blooded American to almost Mexican, as he learns how to be a better Latino and understand what it means to be “Half…
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The Children of Loving v. Virginia: Living at the Intersection of Law and Mixed-Race Identity Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special Lecture University of Michigan 2015-01-19 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School Prof. Martha S. Jones, who codirects the Program in Race,…
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Grappling With Today’s Realities From a Black-Jewish Perspective Jewish Exponent: What it Means to be Jewish in Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-01-15 David A. Love The author with his wife, Sarah Katz, and son, Micah. As an African-American who is a member of the Jewish community by choice — and is also raising a Jewish child…
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The Fluidity of Race: “Passing” in the United States, 1880-1940 The National Bureau of Economic Research NBER Working Paper No. 20828 January 2015 76 pages DOI: 10.3386/w20828 Emily Nix Department of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Nancy Qian, Associate Professor of Economics Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut This paper quantifies the extent to which…