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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Exhibit by Penn cultural anthropologist showcases Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2015-12-10 Jacquie Posey Free and enslaved Africans shaped and built Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Their descendants, known as Afro-Latinos, are featured in a new photo exhibition by cultural anthropologist Sandra Andino, associate director…
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The Race Relations Act at 50: Davina’s story BBC Radio 5 In Short 2015-12-07 It is 50 years since Britain’s first Race Relations Act was passed, banning racial discrimination in public places. Davina Looker, an English teacher and blogger from London has spoken to BBC Radio 5 live about her “desperate” search to find an…
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Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’ NBC News 2015-12-31 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Sharon H. Chang’s son with a copy of Kip Fulbeck’s “Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids.” Photograph Courtesy of Sharon H. Chang Scholar and activist Sharon H. Chang’s new book, “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial…
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Best of 2015: 12 authors on remarkable transformations Christian Science Monitor 2015-12-28 Randy Dotinga, President American Society of Journalists and Authors This year, I’ve interviewed many authors about moments of transformation for Q&A features in the Monitor. Here are some of my favorite answers. Transformation is an integral part of story-telling: How do we get…
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Before Rachel Dolezal, what did it mean to ‘pass’? Christian Science Monitor 2015-06-22 Randy Dotinga, President American Society of Journalists and Authors Allyson Hobbs, author of ‘A Chosen Exile,’ says the debate stirred up by Rachel Dolezal’s resignation from the NAACP hits historic chords. Allyson Hobbs, a history professor at Stanford University, remembers hearing a…
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One Drop of Love 2015 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni 2015-12-30 Love & Gratitude to all who contributed to making 2015 an amazing year for One Drop of Love! One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, justice and LOVE. For more information, click here.