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: Communications/Media Studies
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This Black-ish review is late. It’s incredibly late because this was a complex episode to approach. As soon as the cold open ended with Bow’s disdainful expression as she saw Junior’s white girlfriend, my phone started going off. My mom texted, “Wow, they’re really gonna do this?” From a distance, “Being Bow-racial” may seem like…
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This research explores how White women perceive their roles as parents to “mixed” race or biracial Black children. This qualitative project analyzes data from in person interviews, photographs and comments posted on Internet blogs, Facebook fan pages of mixed race children. Core elements of grounded theory are used as methodology to explore how White women…
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Hapa Capsulizes Painful Moments from 2016 Asian America in Less than 90 Seconds AsAmNews 2016-11-27 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent A popular new video out less than a week freezes in time moments in 2016 that highlight the racism and the persistent whitewashing the Asian American community faced throughout the year. The short A-woke is…
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This week, Britain’s ITV showed a programme on Mary Seacole entitled “In the Shadow of Mary Seacole.” In some ways, the programme could have been titled, “Mary Seacole in the Shadow of British Racism.” Many people who initially celebrated the fact that ITV was telling the story of the woman labeled “The Greatest Black Briton”…
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Passing in the Age of Rachel Dolezal, or Is Everyone Catfishing? Response: The Digital Journal of Popular Culture Scholarship Issue One (November 2016) Judy Phagan, Associate Professor of English St. Joseph’s College, New York Rachel Doležal It was revealed in the New York Times and on national television in the summer of 2015 that Africana…
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‘Loving’ inspires a DIY Film Festival of miscegenation films and shows you need to see… CinemaInMind: Thinking about film… and other stuff 2016-11-03 Tim Cogshell, Critic At Large Alt Film Guide You don’t need to wait for the local art house to put on a themed film festival. Tim Cogshell, film critic for KPCC’s Filmweek…
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Whitening, Mixing, Darkening, and Developing: Everything but Indigenous Latin American Research Review Volume 51, Number 3, 2016 pages 142-160 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2016.0038 Juliana Luna Freire, Assistant Professor of Spanish/Portuguese Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts This article analyzes the image of Brazilian Indigenous minority groups as a figurehead in media discourse, which is based on racializing logics…
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October 29, 1949 Black Quotidian: Everyday History in African-American Newspapers 2016-10-29 Matthew F. Delmont, Professor of History Arizona State University On October 29, 1949, the Chicago Defender published Walter White’s review of Elia Kazan’s film Pinky. The film, a drama about racial passing starring Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters, was the top-grossing film of 1949.…
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I had the pleasure of sitting down with Dr. Bryce Henson who recently defended his dissertation Rediasporizing Bahia: The Lived Experiences of Blackness and the Cultural Politics of Bahian Hip-Hop at the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. In the following interview, which has been edited for clarity, structure, and brevity,…