Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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.
about
Month: June 2010
-
“Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community” is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life.
-
The Transformation of U.S. Racial and Ethnic Identities in Global Media Contact Spaces of American Culture: LOCALIZING GLOBAL PHENOMENA 36th International Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) Department of American Studies, University of Graz 2009-10-22 through 2009-10-25 Shelleen Greene, Assistant Professor of Digital Studio Practice and Theory University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Through…
-
ART & DESIGN FACULTY – Shelleen Greene awarded IRE Faculty Diversity Research Award Peck School of The Arts News University of Wisconsin, Madison 2010-06-15 The award will allow Assistant Professor Shelleen Greene to complete her book project, Equivocal Subjects: Mixed-Race Identity in the Italian Cinema. The book examines the representation of mixed-race subjects of Italian…
-
Washington College students awarded summer fellowships The Star Democrat Easton, Maryland 2010-06-02 CHESTERTOWN, MARYLAND Six Washington College students were awarded Comegys Bight Summer Research Fellowships supported by the Comegys Bight Fellows Program, which invites scholars to design independent research projects and internships built around their particular interests. These projects include field research on the ghost…
-
Born to a Danish seamstress and a black West Indian cook in one of the Western Hemisphere’s most infamous vice districts, Nella Larsen (1891-1964) lived her life in the shadows of America’s racial divide. She wrote about that life, was briefly celebrated in her time, then was lost to later generations–only to be rediscovered and…