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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“Braided Skin” is the vibrant telling of experiences of mixed ethnicity, urban childhood, poverty and youthful dreams through various voices. Knight writes a confident rhythm of poetry, prose and erasure by using the recurring image of braiding–a different metaphor than “mixing,” our default when speaking the language of race.
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Arcade Fire Exploited Haiti, and Almost No One Noticed The Atlantic 2013-11-12 Hayden Higgins Arcade Fire / JF Lalonde The band has a deep, sincere relationship with the Caribbean nation. But even so, Reflektor’s marketing campaign has perpetuated stereotypes. Months before Arcade Fire’s new album came out, I learned of its existence when social media…
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Maj. Gen. Nadja West confirmed as 44th Army Surgeon General www.army.mil: The Official Homepage of the United States Army 2015-12-11 Maria Tolleson, Media Relations Officer Maj. Gen. Nadja West is sworn in as 44th Surgeon General of the Army by Acting Secretary of the Army Eric Fanning. West is also Commander of the US Army…
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South Bend high school student behind race-based signs speaks out WNDU TV 16 South Bend, Indiana 2016-02-12 A local high school student says he’s in trouble after he and two other students posted some controversial signs at Riley High School. The signs stated “COLORED ONLY” and “WHITES ONLY,” and they were placed above water fountains…
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“In sixth grade, a lot of people thought I was Hispanic or white because I have chocolate hair, like it’s not black hair. My eyes aren’t as prominent,” Ahlberg, now in eighth grade, said. “My mom is Taiwanese and my dad is half Swedish.”
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“The Day Beyoncé Turned Black” – SNL Saturday Night Live (NBC) 2016-02-13
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Social justice advocate and law scholar Dorothy Roberts has a precise and powerful message: Race-based medicine is bad medicine. Even today, many doctors still use race as a medical shortcut; they make important decisions about things like pain tolerance based on a patient’s skin color instead of medical observation and measurement. In this searing talk,…
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Identifying as Mixed Race vs Identifying as Black: I Choose Both Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-02-10 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom I recently watched an interview with the UK rapper, writer and academic Akala. I usually really enjoy hearing him speak and generally find him to be quite faultless in his views on racial…