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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First Look at Matthew McConaughey in The Free State of Jones ComingSoon.net 2015-03-09 Max Evry Motion picture and television studio STX Entertainment has begun principal photography on the theatrical feature The Free State of Jones in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, it was announced by Adam Fogelson, Chairman of STX Entertainment’s Motion Picture Group. The…
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Madison Police Shooting: Not Just About Race Because Victim Was Biracial, Family Says ABC News 2015-03-09 Meghan Keneally, Digital Reporter The uncle of the 19-year-old who was fatally shot by a police officer in Madison, Wisconsin, over the weekend said that his nephew “just wanted to be loved.” Tony Robinson Jr., who was known to…
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Wisconsin chief treading carefully after fatal shooting The Washington Post 2015-03-08 The Associated Press MADISON, Wis. — Within hours of a white officer shooting an unarmed black man, the police chief of Wisconsin’s capital city was praying with the man’s grandmother, hoping to strike a conciliatory tone and avoid the riots that last year rocked…
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Book Discussion on A Chosen Exile C-SPAN: Created by Cable Recorded on 2015-02-27 at: The National Archives Museum William G. McGowan Theater Washington, D.C. Allyson Hobbs talked about her book A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life, in which she examines the lives of African Americans who chose to pass as white…
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Katherine Johnson: National Visionary National Visionary Leadership Project 2005 Image of Katherine Johnson at NASA Langley Research Center in 1971. NASA mathematician and physicist whose work successfully guided astronauts throughout the historic early era of manned space flight including the first mission to the moon BIOGRAPHY Katherine Coleman Goble Johnson is a pioneer of the…
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Mary Seacole – International Woman The Huffington Post, United Kingdom 2015-03-04 Elizabeth Anionwu, Emeritus Professor of Nursing University of West London Later this year a memorial statue to Mary Seacole will be unveiled in the gardens of St Thomas’ hospital, overlooking the River Thames and the Houses of Parliament. Sir Hugh Taylor, Chairman of Guys…
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Identity Entrepreneurs 2015-03-05 87 pages Nancy Leong, Associate Professor of Law University of Denver Sturm College of Law In my previous article Racial Capitalism, I examined the ways in which white individuals and predominantly white institutions derive value from non-white racial identity. This process results in part from our intense social and legal preoccupation with…