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: March 2012
-
Present Status of Miscegenation Statutes William and Mary Law Review Volume 4, Issue 1 (January 1963) Article 4 pages 28-35 Edmund L. Walton Jr., Founder Walton & Adams, P.C., Reston, Virginia With the influx of so called “civil rights” cases in recent years it seems that a reappraisal of state legislation and constitutional prohibitions concerning intermarriage…
-
Re-searching Metis identity: My Metis Family story University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon April 2010 200 pages Tara J. Turner A Thesis Submitted to the College of Graduate Studies and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Psychology University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon This research explores Metis…
-
Between black and white: Rethinking Coloured identity African Identities Volume 1, Issue 2 (2003) pages 253-280 DOI: 10.1080/1472584032000173139 Pal Ahluwalia, Pro Vice Chancellor of Education, Arts and Social Sciences University of South Australia Abebe Zegeye Goldsmiths College, University of London Identity who we are, where we come from, what we are is difficult to maintain…
-
Birth in the Briar Patch: Charles W. Chesnutt and the Problem of Racial Identity The Southern Literary Journal Volume 41, Number 2, Spring 2009 pages 1-20 DOI: 10.1353/slj.0.0040 Daniel Worden, Assistant Professor of English University of Colorado, Colorado Springs In his speech “The Courts and the Negro,” written around 1908, Charles W. Chesnutt faults the…
-
Catholic records of slave baptisms in colonial New Orleans go online New Orleans Times-Picayune 2011-02-01 Bruce Nolan, Beat Reporter On Sunday, the 6th of May, 1798, an enslaved New Orleans woman named only Manon, owned by Mr. LeBlanc, presented her 2-year-old child, Antoine Joseph, at St. Louis Cathedral on the Plaza de Armas to be…
-
Treating a medical mosaic, doctors develop a new appreciation for the role of ethnicity in disease The Globe and Mail Toronto, Canada 2012-02-15 Dakshana Bascaramurty, Reporter Baby X is born in a Canadian hospital and her tiny, wrinkled body is placed on a scale that reads 3,061 grams, or 6 pounds and 12 ounces. Things…
-
Not Tainted by the Past: Re-conceptualization and Politics of Coloured Identities among University Coloured Student Activists in Post-Apartheid South Africa Achieving Sustainable Development in Africa International Conference at the University of Pittsburgh 2012-03-29 through 2012-03-30 Sardana Nikolaeva School of Education University of Pittsburgh The colonial apartheid South Africa, its hierarchical racial classification and its consequences…