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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Self Portraits of an African-Canadian Dressed as Her White Ancestors Explores Her Mixed Heritage feature shoot 2013-07-01 Keren Moscovitch Brooklyn-based photographer Stacey Tyrell’s series Backra Bluid is a dramatic investigation of the artist’s own mixed heritage and the colonialized experiences of non-whites. As an African-Canadian, whose family most recently hails from the Caribbean, she is…
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In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown.
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‘White House Down’ and Black Presidents on Screen The New York Times 2013-06-26 Mekado Murphy At one point in the action thriller “White House Down,” which opens June 28, the president of the United States, played by Jamie Foxx, is trying to thwart a paramilitary group that has overtaken the White House. After swapping his…
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Naked Bodies, Bodies of History Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged 2013-06-27 Jenny Lee “She mimics the speaking. That might resemble speech. (Anything at all.) Bared noise, groan, bits torn from words…From the back of her neck she releases her shoulders free. She swallows once more.” So begins the story of the halting diseuse, or female…
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Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 HarperCollins 2011-03-15 336 pages Trimsize: 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780062009234; ISBN10: 0062009230 eBook ISBN: 9780062078650; ISBN10: 0062078658 MariNaomi From her father and mother’s interracial marriage to her own “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” moments on the playground—from drug experimentation…
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‘One Drop of Love’ (Theatre Review) The Chic of Domesticity: A Woman-to-Women Conversation on All Facets of Life – Fashion – Politics – Religion – Style – Travel 2013-06-29 Jennifer Vaughn-Estrada Plans free for tomorrow evening? I recommend catching the final performance of One Drop of Love: A Daughter’s Search for Her Father’s Racial Approval…