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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Tío Tomás’s Cabin: Marco Rubio and White Cubanidad Latino Rebels 2016-01-14 Jason Nichols, Lecturer in African American Studies University of Maryland Last semester I had a young man turn in an assignment in which students were instructed to write to a current presidential candidate. This particular student had been outspoken and one of the more…
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The Forgotten Era of Punjabi-Mexicans OZY 2016-01-13 Nick Fouriezos, Reporter/Researcher Like a good comedian, Mary Singh Rai picked from her three identities to best suit her listener. “When I’m with Americans, I like to think of myself as one,” the native of Yuba City, California, said in a 2012 interview. But in some ways, the…
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Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku discussing her life and work on Talking Africa BlackRook Media 2015-05-12 Musician Chi-chi Nwanoku has been discussing her life and work on Talking Africa. Chi-Chi is a passionate advocate of music and particularly the double bass. She is a Principal Double Bass and founder member of the Orchestra of the Age of…
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Hundreds gather over Maggie Walker statue controversy WWBT, NBC 12 Richmond, Virginia 2016-01-12 Ashley Monfort, Henrico Reporter RICHMOND, VA (WWBT) – Discussion about plans to build a statue of Maggie Walker in downtown Richmond drew a lot of opinions on both sides. Hundreds of residents gathered at the Richmond Public Library Tuesday to have their…
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Meet Team One Drop: Dr. Chandra Crudup Fanshen Cox 2016-01-12 Meet One Drop of Love’s Production Manager, Dr. Chandra Crudup. She makes sure all technical aspects of the show are in place and lends lots of other support to Fanshen when we travel. She also often calls the show and hosts our Q&A talkbacks. She…
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On Being Mixed Race: I am Not a Percentage or a Fraction The Radical Notion 2016-01-12 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom I’ve noticed frequently when I’m having a conversation with someone about my racial identity, I start to feel frustrated by some of the language that comes up. To clarify my father is black…
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TS Eliot prize: poet Sarah Howe wins with ‘amazing’ debut The Guardian 2016-01-11 Mark Brown, Arts correspondent Sarah Howe, a fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, could ‘change British poetry’. Photograph: Hayley Madden/FMcM/PA Judges hail daring use of form in a collection that examines poet’s joint British and Chinese heritage A new voice, who judges say…
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Book review: Loop of Jade by Sarah Howe The Scotsman: Scotland’s National Newspaper 2015-05-03 Roger Cox, Arts Editor Sarah Howe, Loop of Jade (London: Chatto & Windus, 2015) DOUBLE takes haunt poet Sarah Howe on her return to memory’s fragrant harbour, writes Roger Cox In her poem Sirens, Sarah Howe writes “I had one of…