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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Alena Murang, who has mixed parentage, discovered only as an adult that she was not legally “native” in her homeland, Sarawak.
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A groundbreaking rediscovery of a classically trained innovator and powerful teacher who set milestones for African American singers and musicians
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Their interracial romance ended painfully after college. They reunited 42 years later — and now live together. The Washington Post 2021-10-04 Sydney Page, Freelance Reporter Steve Watts and Jeanne Gustavson, while they were dating in secret in the 1970s. The couple met in college at a German Club meeting, when Gustavson was a freshman and…
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The jokes, comments and stereotypes always flow so freely. I speak up every time.
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Large groups of people have always fallen through the cracks of its racial categories — often by design.
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The story of an enslaved man who became a Georgia state senator, helped found a church, and led his people to promise and hope
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I thought I was White until I learned my mother’s secret. The census helped me tell my family story.
I thought I was White until I learned my mother’s secret. The census helped me tell my family story. The Washington Post 2021-10-13 Gail Lukasik Gail Lukasik’s mother, Alvera Frederic Kalina, in New Orleans circa 1942. Kalina was born into a Black family in New Orleans but spent her life passing as White. (Family photo)…
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Oral history interview with Lawrence Dennis, 1967 Columbia University Libraries Digital Collections Columbia Center for Oral History Columbia University, New York, New York Digitized 2010 (Originally recorded in 1967) DOI: 10.7916/d8-cpb1-1692 Lawrence Dennis (1893-1977) interviewed by William R. Keylor (1944-). Listen to the interview here.