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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Mixed Race Related Sessions at ACPA 2014 American College Personnel Association 2014 Annual Convenetion Indianapolis, Indiana 2014-03-30 through 2014-04-02 574: Coloring Outside the Lines: How to Advocate for Multiracial Students on the College Campus Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Tuesday, 2014-04-01, 10:30-11:30 CDT (Local Time) Location: Indiana Convention Center, 141 Program Presenter: Jessica Harris Indiana…
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Daughter of the Empire State: The Life of Judge Jane Bolin University of Illinois Press December 2011 168 pages 6 x 9 in. 4 black & white photographs Cloth ISBN: 978-0-252-03657-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-0-252-09361-6 Jacqueline A. McLeod, Associate Professor of History and African & African American Studies Metropolitan State College of Denver The trailblazing work…
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When it Comes to Diversity, Who Counts? The Huffington Post The Blog 2014-03-26 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan When talking diversity at colleges and universities, the numbers count. Still, when it comes to mixed-race students, too often they do not count…
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[This short paper was originally written for “Jean Toomer and Politics,” a Special Session Roundtable at the 2012 MLA Conference in Seattle. I have made a few edits.]
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Jane Bolin, the Country’s First Black Woman to Become a Judge, Is Dead at 98 The New York Times 2007-01-10 Douglas Martin Jane Bolin, whose appointment as a family court judge by Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia in 1939 made her the first black woman in the United States to become a judge, died on…
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Owning my mixed-race identity: Why I don’t have to choose sides Salon Wednesday, 2014-03-12 Eternity E. Martis London, Ontario, Canada People can’t seem to understand that I’m not either black or Anglo-Pakistani, but all of the above My mother is Anglo-Pakistani and my father is Jamaican (and a quarter Chinese). I grew up with my…
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Butterfield featured on ‘Colbert Report’ The Wilson Times Wilson, North Carolina Tuesday, 2014-03-25 Corey Friedman, Times Online Editor Comic pundit Stephen Colbert argued Obamacare and the Racial Justice Act with U.S. Rep. G.K. Butterfield while bashing North Carolina barbecue in a playful segment spotlighting Wilson’s congressional district. Butterfield, a Democrat representing the state’s 1st District,…
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Playing Chinese Whispers: The Official ‘Gossip’ of Racial Whitening in Jorge Amado’s Tenda dos Milagres Forum for Modern Language Studies Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2014 pages 196-211 DOI: 10.1093/fmls/cqu006 Helen Lima de Sousa, Santander Post-Doctoral Senior Studentship in Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies Clare College, University of Cambridge This article explores the possible inauthentic…
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Zines from the Borderlands: Storytelling about Mixed-Heritage Brooklyn Historical Society Great Hall 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 2014-04-24, 19:00-21:00 EST (Local Time) How can zines create new narratives and representations for mixed-heritage people, LGBTQ communities, and people of color who are stereotyped or ignored in mainstream media? What is the role of zines, DIY…