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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Multiracial Identity for the Year 2000 Census C-SPAN 1998-05-30 Panelists discussed the federal government’s recent decision to allow individuals to define their race by more than one category on the 2000 census. They discussed the implications of this decision and its effect on areas such as social program funding and political representation. Panelists also answered media questions.…
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UCLA Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 – Mixed Stories Team Mixed Show University of California, Los Angeles Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 2014-06-18 Recorded at the Mixed Student Union at UCLA’s Mixed Heritage Conference, April 2014. Participants at the conference share their stories. *Our apologies to the people who we filmed but did not make it into…
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An Evening with Hip Hop Scholar/Activist and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate, Rosa Clemente Yemaya Pictures California State University, Los Angeles 2014-05-08, 20:00 PDT 5151 State University Drive Annenberg Science Building 132 (Science Building Wing B, Lecture Hall) Los Angeles, California 90032 From May 8, 2014. The Pan-African Studies Department at California State University,…
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The Chosen Exile of Racial “Passing:” Allyson Hobbs at TEDxStanford TEDx Talks 2014-05-30 Allyson Hobbs, PhD 2009, speaks about the history of racial passing for TEDx Talks. Using the Emersonian idea of “coming up with the emphatic facts of history in our private experience,” Hobbs tells the story of a cousin who passed for white,…
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Presentation on ‘African Heritage in Classical Music’ followed by the screening of ‘The Black Mozart in Cuba’ Marcus Garvey Library Tottenham Green Centre 1 Phillip Lane Tottenham, London N15 4JA Saturday, 2014-06-14, 17:00-20:00 BST (Local Time) Black History Studies in association with the Marcus Garvey Library presents ‘Sankofa Saturdays’ African Heritage in Classical Music Music…
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Mo Asumang: Confronting racism face-to-face BBC News Magazine 2014-05-13 Mo Asumang is the daughter of a black Ghanaian father and a white German mother. As a well-known TV presenter in Germany she became the target of racist extreme right-wingers and neo-Nazis, who based their attacks on Asumang’s “non-Aryan” background. So she decided to look into…
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Future Children Campus MoveFest 2014-05-03 Emily Eaglin—Captain, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor University of Maryland, Baltimore County A comedy/documentary about race relations especially pertaining to racial micro-aggressions of those who are more than one race. Created by Emily Eaglin’s Crew at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2014 as part of Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest…
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Allyson Hobbs: Racial Passing and African American Family Life in Jim Crow America The Ethics@noon Series The McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society Stanford University 2011-02-04 Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University On February 4th, 2011 Allyson Hobbs discussed the Jim Crow era as a watershed in the history of racial passing.…