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  • With special guest, Steven F. Riley, founder of MixedRaceStudies.org! Also, Neneh Cherry on being mixed race in the music industry, controversial new Netflix Show ‘Always a Witch’, Viola Davis and the Liam Neeson controversy, Queen Ifrica on colourism, “Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America” by IbI Zoboi, Grace Wales Bonner, plus…

  • Debut episode from Laura Hesketh & Lou Mensah where we discuss identification, Meghan Markle, the Khloe Kardashian bi racial doll tweet, Steven Riley, Colin Kaepernick and more.

  • Please join the 100,000+ visitors each month who make MixedRaceStudies.org the go-to resource for mixed-race studies!

  • Steven F. Riley, curator of MixedRaceStudies.org, joined us for this discussion of mixed race studies, popular culture and the shifting terrain of race and identity.

  • It’s the summer of 1998 and I’m at the mall with my mom and my sister Anna, who has just turned 5. I’m 7. Anna and I are cranky from being too hot, then too cold, then too bored. We keep touching things we are not supposed to touch, and by the time Mom drags…

  • MixedRaceStudies.org Surpasses 10,000 Posts! MixedRaceStudies.org 2016-05-02 Steven F. Riley, Creator and Founder Silver Spring, Maryland–MixedRaceStudies.org, the a non-commercial website that since 2009, provides the most comprehensive and robust gateway to interdisciplinary English language media about the relevant issues surrounding multiracialism, has now surpassed 10,000 posts.  This site has been called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive…

  • “Perhaps not since Ashley Montagu’s revolutionary, Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (1942), has a more important work on the pernicious aspects of race and racialization been written. The Arc of a Bad Idea, Understanding and Transcending Race, upends and debunks our conventional thinking about race and ending racism. Carlos Hoyt has written…

  • Studying multiracialism and critical mixed race studies with Steven Riley, Ep. 42 Multiracial Family Man 2015-12-06 Alex Barnett, Host Steven F. Riley, Creator and Founder MixedRaceStudies.org I’m really excited to let you know that I was just interviewed on the Multiracial Family Man podcast to discuss issues confronting multiracial people and multiracial families. It was…

  • Multiracial Community Organizations Response to #Ferguson 2014-11-26 As members of the multiracial community, we want to express our concern and compassion for the family of Michael Brown Jr. We are connected to these events and stand in solidarity with the many individuals and communities that have been harmed by the legacies of white supremacy, privilege, and…

  • BLACK AND WHITE vs BLACK OR WHITE: Bioethics and Mixed Race Families September Williams’ Bioethics Screen Reflections: Film, Television, and Media Critiques Relevant to Bioethics 2015-03-01 September Williams, MD Black and White, screened at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival and later at the Mill Valley Film Festival, in October 2014. The same title was also…