Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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.
about
Category: Media Archive
-
Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life The Mixed Experience 2014-10-20 Heidi Durrow, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University I was lucky enough to get an advance reading copy of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing…
-
Race and the Making of Family in the Atlantic World University of North Carolina, Wilmington Burney Center 601 S. College Road Wilmington, North Carolina Thursday, 2014-10-23, 19:30 EDT (Local Time) Daniel Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri In the eighteenth-century world of slavery and the slave trade, racial prejudices were often stark…
-
Olive Senior Olive Senior’s Gardening in the Tropics 2012 Hyacinth M. Simpson, Associate Professor of English Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Olive Marjorie Senior was born in the parish of Trelawny on the Caribbean island of Jamaica on 23 December 1941. The seventh of ten children, she grew up in the shadow of the Cockpit…
-
The many meanings of the Haitian declaration of independence OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2014-01-03 Philippe R. Girard, Associate Professor of History McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana Two hundred and ten years ago, on 1 January 1804, Haiti formally declared its independence from France at the end of a…
-
Gardening in the Tropics Insomniac Press 2005 (originally published in 1994) 144 pages 5″ x 8″ Paperback ISBN: 1-897178-00-X Olive Senior Gardening in the Tropics contains a rich Caribbean world in poems offered to readers everywhere. Olive Senior’s rich vein of humour can turn wry and then sharp in satire of colour-consciousness, class-consciousness and racism.…
-
Children (but not adults) judge similarity in own- and other-race faces by the color of their skin Journal of Experimental Child Psychology Volume 130, February 2015 pages 56–66 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2014.09.009 Benjamin Balas, Assistant Professor of Psychology North Dakota State University Jessie Peissig, Associate Professor of Psychology California State University, Fullerton Margaret Moulson, Assistant Professor &…
-
Confederate officer’s wartime diary decoded The Associated Press 2014-10-13 Chris Carola SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — A century and a half after Confederate officer James Malbone wrote his Civil War diary partly in code, a couple of Yankees have figured out why he took the precaution: He liked to gossip. Sprinkled amid entries on camp…
-
Race, sex, and colonialism OUPblog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World 2014-10-20 Carina Ray, Associate Professor of African and Afro- American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts DJ/Presenter Reggie Yates and Dr. Carina Ray review historical documents As an Africanist historian committed to reaching broader publics, I was thrilled when the research team…
-
Who Here Is A Negro? Michigan Quarterly Review Volume 53, Issue 1 (Winter 2014) Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Last fall I made a migration south. The promise of a year’s sabbatical and an escape from the demands of teaching and…