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
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- 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: Communications/Media Studies
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Reel Representation: Amma Asante’s films adeptly portray multiracial identity The Daily Bruin Los Angeles, California 2017-02-09 Olivia Mazzucato Diversity in film and television came into the spotlight in 2016 with #OscarsSoWhite. A USC study in 2016 found only about a quarter of speaking characters belonged to non-white racial/ethnic groups. In “Reel Representation,” columnist Olivia Mazzucato…
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In Plain Sight: Changing Representations of “Biracial” People in Film 1903-2015 Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin December 2016 247 pages Charles Lawrence Gray A Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School, Marquette University, In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Educational Policy and Leadership) Rooted in slavery, the…
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Mixed: Documentary to Explore Interracial Families American University Washington, D.C. 2016-12-15 Gregg Sangillo, Online Writer School of Communication professors Leena Jayaswal (l) and Caty Borum Chattoo (r) are making a film about interracial families in the United States. It took a while for documentary filmmakers Leena Jayaswal and Caty Borum Chattoo to realize that they…
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Three movies this year show Virginia’s racial history. In short, it’s complicated. The Washington Post 2016-12-22 Stephanie Merry, Reporter Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving in the movie “Loving.” (Ben Rothstein/Focus Features) “Loving” shows Virginia at its most romantic and picturesque. Toward the beginning of the drama, a man takes his…
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The people running the media are the problem Nieman Lab 2016-12-13 Matt Waite, Founder, Drone Journalism Lab; Professor of Journalism University of Nebraska This month, I spent a week surrounded by bright, well-meaning journalism and tech thinkers. Session after session, day after day, conversations kept coming back to these questions: How do we restore trust…
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Black-ish Recap: The Bunny Magnet Vulture 2016-12-01 Nichole Perkins It’s been a while since we’ve had such a perfect episode of Black-ish, but “Being Bow-racial” was worth the wait. Junior’s [Marcus Scribner]white girlfriend sends Bow [Tracee Ellis Ross] on the sort of identity crisis she hasn’t had since college. She narrates, giving us a much-needed…
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“It’s my black girl who looks like a white girl with a tan and a bad hair day.”