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
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- 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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Missing faces The Guardian 2007-03-23 Jackie Kay, Professor of Creative Writing Newcastle University As the United Kingdom marks the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade tomorrow, Jackie Kay challenges fellow Scots to acknowledge their forebears’ part in this shameful history and reflects on the ordeal suffered by her ancestors We’re perhaps over-fond…
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6 News reporter learns Virginia town was named for her ancestor WATE.com Knoxville, Tennessee 2012-07-23 Erica Estep, 6 News Reporter KNOXVILLE (WATE) – How much do you know about your family history? Where did your ancestors live? What were their daily lives like, and what do you have in common with them? Whether it is…
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Summer in the Global Village: Trevor Noah, South Africa’s Comic Phenomenon The World Public Radio International 2013-07-16 Mirissa Neff In South Africa, comedian Trevor Noah is a phenomenon. A friend who recently came back from Johannesburg and Cape Town, remarked that the 28-year-old’s every utterance, whether on TV or Twitter (where he has nearly a…
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Scottish people’s DNA study could ‘rewrite nation’s history’ The Guardian 2012-08-14 Charlotte Higgins, Chief Arts Writer Evidence of African, Arabian, south-east Asian and Siberian ancestry in Scotland, says author of book tracing genetic journey A large scale study of Scottish people’s DNA is threatening to “rewrite the nation’s history”, according to author Alistair Moffat. Scotland,…
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War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art Opening Reception Wing Luke Museum 719 South King Street Seattle, Washington Thursday, 2013-08-08, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for the opening reception of War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art. As an increasingly ethnically ambiguous Asian American generation is coming of age, this multi-platform project…
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The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.
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Gladys Zimmerman, Mother Of George Zimmerman, Says Her Family Is ‘Proudly Afro-Peruvian,’ But Do His Black Roots Matter In Trayvon Martin Case? Latin Times New York, New York 2013-07-15 David Iaconangelo As protests mount against the verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman, the question of how the public ought to see Zimmerman’s racial background…