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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Mixed Feelings The Center for Asian American Media 1998 45 minutes, VHS Mikko Jokela, Director/Poducer Through interviews with five UC Berkeley students and teachers of mixed ethnic heritage, filmmaker Mikko Jokela illuminates the experience of what it is like to grow up part Asian in American society. His peers offer personal anecdotes detailing how their…
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Dorothy Roberts: Bringing Different Perspectives into Class University of Pennsylvania Multimedia 2015-02-12 When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s many trips abroad, and one during which her…
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Katanga’s forgotten people FRANCE 24 2010-03-16 Marlène Rabaud Arnaud Zajtman Like many mixed-race children in Congo, they were born of a Japanese father who came to work in the mines of Katanga in south-east of the country. Today, they accuse their fathers of wanting to kill them so as not to leave behind any traces when…
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The Children of Loving v. Virginia: Living at the Intersection of Law and Mixed-Race Identity Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special Lecture University of Michigan 2015-01-19 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School Prof. Martha S. Jones, who codirects the Program in Race,…
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Poet Natasha Trethewey Explores Public and Personal Histories of Race in America The Aspen Institute 2015-01-13 Caroline Tory, Program Coordinator Aspen Words, Aspen Colorado On a recent winter night, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey addressed an Aspen Words audience in Aspen, CO, on the intersection between art and activism. “[I am] a poet interested not…
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Section of Creative Media lecturer to speak at Global Mixed Race conference in Chicago Dundalk Institute of Technology Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland 2014-11-10 Kathryn Moley Communications Office Dundalk Institute of Technology is incredibly proud to announce that Joint Programme Director of Video and Film in the Institute, Zélie Asava, is travelling to Chicago, to participate…
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Museum Offers Interactive Oral History of Mixed Race Brooklynites NY1 News New York, New York 2014-12-29 Jeanine Ramirez, Brooklyn Reporter A new interactive website offers an interracial, multi-ethnic view of Brookynites. NY1’s Jeanine Ramirez filed the following report. Deborah Schwartz clicks on the latest resource at the Brooklyn Historical Society, an oral history project about…