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.
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Category: Media Archive
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Paisley Rekdal is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Utah, where she is also the creator and editor of West: A Translation, as well as the community web projects Mapping Literary Utah and Mapping Salt Lake City. In May 2017, she was named Utah’s Poet Laureate and received a 2019 Academy of American Poets’…
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So here goes: After months of thinking (waffling), I’m legally changing my name. Even though my timing is off, with my indie publisher having released my sophomore novel in October 2021. Even with all my previous writing, my prior email addresses and digital footprints tied to my deadnames.
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In “The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame Decuir’s Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era,” Jack Beermann tells the story of how, in Hall v. Decuir, the post–Civil War US Supreme Court took its first step toward perpetuating the subjugation of the non-White population of the United States by actively preventing a Southern…
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Times change, and with them the ways in which some of us move through once-familiar spaces. Lately, I’ve been challenged with how to respond to the new dynamic of Mixed-Black folks being gatekept out of some Black spaces.
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Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race Harvard University Press 2022-03-22 320 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 21 photos, 1 table Hardcover ISBN: 9780674244269 Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alfonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor; Director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Andrew…
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This pioneering examination of an important symbol in popular literature of the last century opens up a previously unexplored repository of attitudes toward American civilization. An important book for all those concerned with the course of American culture and literature.
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She is one of the world’s most in-demand models, but it wasn’t always this way. As she gets her big acting break in “Top Boy,” she explains how she got through a tumultuous decade