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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Category: Media Archive
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I will never experience the same struggle of my Black brothers and sisters, and I am ashamed to say that I’m Black because of that — because I’ll never experience that same suffering.
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It’s slow progress since Donyale Luna became the first black supermodel nearly 50 years ago. Especially since most inveterate fashion-watchers don’t even know Luna’s name.
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With over 50,000 Chinese-Jamaicans residing on the Caribbean island, how did such a unique community form?
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This class explores how re-occurring images of racial and ethnic minorities such as African Americans, Jews, Asians, Native Americans and Latino/as are represented in film and shows visual images of racial interactions and boundaries of human relations that tackle topics such as immigration, inter-racial relationships and racial passing.
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Fiercely progressive and independent, he was a persistent critic of the liberal establishment, especially Black leaders like Barack Obama.
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A rare gathering of Black dancers from different companies meet to discuss a new production on Little Island, curated by Misty Copeland and Robert Garland.
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Thomas Collins, Lost Melungeon Roots Alicia M. Prater, Ph.D. 2020-09-03 The Goins’, a Melungeon family in Graysville, Tennessee, in the 1920s. Source Thomas Collins was born about 1785, presumably in Ashe, North Carolina. He was a Melungeon and noted as “Free Colored Person” (FCP) on the 1820 and 1830 U.S. censuses. Thomas married Nancy Williams,…
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What The New Census Data Shows About Race Depends On How You Look At It National Public Radio 2021-08-13 Connie Hanzhang Jin Ruth Talbot Hansi Lo Wang, Correspondent, National Desk Over the past decade, the United States continued to grow more racially and ethnically diverse, according to the results of last year’s national head count…