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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Philanthropy, Jobs for African Youth, Racial Passing Top of Mind with Julie Rose BYU Radio 2016-05-25 Julie Rose, Host …Racial Passing (52:22) Guest: Allyson Hobbs, PhD, Assistant Professor of American History at Stanford University, Author of “A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life.” A 1949 film called “Lost Boundaries” tells the…
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James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. James Boggs was the son of an Alabama sharecropper who came to Detroit during the Great Migration, becoming an automobile worker and a union leader. Grace Lee was a Chinese American scholar who studied…
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Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco’s Two-Spirit Community University of Washington Press June 2016 176 pages 1 bandw illus, 2 tables 6 x 9 in Paperback ISBN: 9780295998503 Hardcover ISBN: 9780295998077 Andrew J. Jolivette, Professor and chair of American Indian studies San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California The first book to…
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Dancer, painter, soldier … Tottenham brothers on their way to the top The Guardian 2016-05-28 Jessica Elgot From left to right, Solomon, Kidane and Amartey … ‘We are fiercely proud – we didn’t feel like these institutions were worlds away.’ Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian Maryam Golding’s three oldest sons – an artist, a…
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Amrita Hepi’s New Dance Collab Explores Authenticity, Race & The Politics Of Passing Oyster Paddington, New South Wales, Australia 2016-05-10 Jerico Mandybur Local hero Amrita Hepi is showcasing her new dance piece ‘Passing’ — with costumes by Honey Long and sound by Laverne of Black Vanilla — alongside Jahra Rager at Next Wave Festival this…
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See Logic Talk Biracial Identity, Anime Influence Rolling Stone 2016-04-20 Brittany Spanos, Staff Writer Rapper discusses prejudice, upcoming albums and ‘The Incredible True Story’ ahead of co-headlining tour with G-Eazy “When it comes to being black and white, and the things that I’ve experienced, it was just a personal journey to look in the mirror…
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Book reading with SHARON H. CHANG: Raising Mixed Race Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience 719 South King Street Seattle, Washington 98104 Thursday, 2016-06-02, 18:00-20:00 PDT (Local Time) Sharon H. Chang has worked with young children and families for over a decade. She is a scholar and activist who focuses on racism,…