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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- 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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The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil
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This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.
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Illuminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in Britain, Esua Jane Goldsmith’s unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that often come with being ‘an only’.
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“For the love of Jesus Christ, she had become the humble and devout servant of the slaves.”
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And the 2022 Oscar Nominees Should Be… The New York Times 2022-01-14 Illustrations by Ben Denzer If our chief critics Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott had their way, these are the films and the people who would be up for Academy Awards. Best Picture: Drive My Car, Passing, The Power of The Dog Best Director:…
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Rebecca Hall shares her Brief But Spectacular take on “Passing” and on her own racial identity as part of our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
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“I am who I am. I’m good with it. You might need to figure it out, but I’m fine with it.”
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“My reasons for writing began with my father, and he remains the elusive character I search for, opening one door after another.”