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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Category: Media Archive
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Notorious in the Neighborhood with Joshua Rothman, Ph.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-08-22, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-08-23, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Joshua D. Rothman, Professor of History and African American Studies University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Notorious in the Neighborhood: Sex and Families Across the Color Line in Virginia, 1787-1861 Laws…
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Fix the Census’ Archaic Racial Categories The New York Times 2013-08-21 Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs Columbia University Also former director of the U.S. Census Bureau from 1998 to 2001 and author of What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts to Classify Americans (Princeton University Press, 2013) Starting in 1790, and…
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Becoming Melungeon: Making an Ethnic Identity in the Appalachian South University of Nebraska Press 2013 232 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8032-7154-8 Melissa Schrift, Associate Professor of Anthropology East Tennessee State University Appalachian legend describes a mysterious, multiethnic population of exotic, dark-skinned rogues called Melungeons who rejected the outside world and lived in the remote, rugged mountains…
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Gwinnett Street Colored Folks Are Talking About the Marriage of the White Man to the Octoroon The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Thursday, 1898-03-31 page 2, column 5 Source: Brooklyn Public Library’s Brooklyn Collection The colored folks in Gwinnett Street are talking to-day of the marriage which took place two weeks ago. Miss Zoe Ball, a vocalist…
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Albert Murray, author who drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz, dies at 97 The Washington Post 2013-08-19 Adam Bernstein, Reporter Albert Murray, a self-described “riff-style intellectual” whose novels, nonfiction books and essays drew on the free-wheeling spirit of jazz and whose works underscored how black culture and the blues in particular were braided into…
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This book shows that without the cooperation of the “mixed-bloods,” or part-Indians, dispossession of Indian lands by the U.S. government in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been much more difficult to accomplish.
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“Faithfully Drawn from Real Life”: Autobiographical Elements in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Volume 137, Number 3 (July 2013) pages 261-300 DOI: 10.5215/pennmaghistbio.137.3.0261 Mary Maillard A resurgence of interest in Frank J. Webb’s The Garies and Their Friends—the second novel by an African American and…