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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In ‘Loving,’ an American story about a marriage worth fighting for PBS NewsHour 2016-11-15 A new movie, “Loving,” tells the real-life story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a Virginia couple who were arrested because interracial marriage was illegal in their home state. They appealed their case and won a landmark civil rights ruling at the…
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Author Gerald Horne talked about his life and career and responded to viewer comments and questions. His most recent book is “Paul Robeson: The Artist as Revolutionary.”
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Dear Mister Shakespeare – inspired by Othello British Council 2016-10-07 Multimedia visual artist Phoebe Boswell has written an original piece, ‘Dear Mister Shakespeare’, in which she questions Shakespeare on the inherent racial tensions within his writing of Othello in the 1600s, and how these tensions continue to resonate today. The film, directed by Shola Amoo,…
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Dr. Zebulon Miletsky discusses his journey through the multiple worlds of race and identity as he shares his experiences with researching his own family genealogy, the various “routes” this process led him to and how “tracing your routes” can lead to more than just knowledge about your background–it’s about how we treat one another along…
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‘We were the unspoken story of Ireland’ BBC News 2016-10-13 The #IamIrish exhibition in north London explores what it means to be mixed race and Irish. Watch the video (00:02:21) here.
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An interview with hip hop artist Akala Vlad TV 2016-06-10 Vladimir Lyubovny (DJ Vlad), Host U.K. artist Akala stopped by the Vlad Couch to discuss a plethora of topics surrounding the history of the impact of slavery throughout the world, Black culture, hip hop’s influence across the world, and what it means to be mixed-race…
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What is “White”? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 In an increasingly diverse country, White Americans are an emerging racial minority. #EmergingUS travelled to one of the Whitest states, Iowa, to ask Iowans what it means to be White in a changing America. Hosted by Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of #EmergingUS…