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: Religion
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Black Hebrew Israelites Celebrate Rabbi Who Founded Their Century-Old Movement Forward 2016-06-24 Sam Kestenbaum, Staff Writer This weekend black Israelites will gather across New York City to celebrate their spiritual patriarch — a rabbi from Harlem who helped establish America’s black Hebrew-Israelite movement a century ago. “We thank the Most High for our beloved Chief…
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Blacks & Jews Entangled The New York Review of Books 2016-07-14 Darryl Pinckney Oreo by Fran Ross, with a foreword by Danzy Senna and an afterword by Harryette Mullen, New Directions, 230 pp., $14.95 (paper) Google wasn’t around when Oreo was first published in 1974. You are hit with Greek mythology and Yiddish right away…
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A Creole melting pot: the politics of language, race, and identity in southwest Louisiana, 1918-45 University of Sussex September 2015 353 pages Christophe Landry Doctorate of Philosophy in History Southwest Louisiana Creoles underwent great change between World Wars I and II as they confronted American culture, people, and norms. This work examines that cultural transformation,…
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Dreaming Black/Writing White: The Hagar Myth in American Cultural History University Press of Kentucky 1999-12-16 224 pages 6 x 9 photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8131-2143-7 Janet Gabler-Hover, Professor of English Georgia State University Winner of the SAMLA 2001 Book Award Hagar, the Old Testament Egyptian heroine who bore Abraham’s son at the behest of Sarah, was…
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How street kids in the Bronx taught me it’s OK to be biracial and gay Fusion 2016-05-18 Terry Blas As a “nerdy, Mexican, gay, Mormon child of the ’80s and ’90s,” cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity… until an experience in New York taught him a valuable lesson. … Read the entire…
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How My Jewish and Black Grandmothers Found Bernie Jewschool: Progressive Jews & Views 2016-04-30 Jason Salmon Photo above: Jason Salmon (center) and members of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) at an action in New York City for police accountability. Photo courtesy JFREJ. Both of my grandmothers, one a Black woman and the other…
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Jewish/Afro-Caribbean artist, performer and playwright Sarah Waisvisz, 34, will be presenting her one-woman show, Monstrous, which explores the often ignored mixed race identity based on her own personal experiences, and her work on her PhD thesis research about Francophone/Anglophone literature specifically by Afro/Caribbean women
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The New Jewish Diaspora? Forward 2016-04-28 Sam Kestenbaum Shavei Israel For centuries, world travelers dreamed of finding distant Jewish tribes in the faraway corners of their known world — over the mountains, in remote villages, practicing customs preserved in isolation. Today, a quick Google search will do. In Facebook groups and on Skype, on Whatsapp…
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At Yale, a Right That Doesn’t Outweigh a Wrong The New York Times 2016-04-29 Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore, Peter V & C Vann Woodward Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut NEW HAVEN — Yale made a grievous mistake this week when it announced that it would keep the…