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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Day: March 11, 2012
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New Geographic Categories Listings for MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-03-10 Steven F. Riley Over the next few days, I will be removing several frequently used geographic tags (indexed items) and converting them into categories (which are listed on the right-hand side). The current tags (that will be placed under the parent tag United States) are: Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, and…
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Métis identity matters Winnipeg Free Press 2011-02-09 Editorial The question of Métis identity has befuddled Canadians, governments and the courts ever since Louis Riel occupied Upper Fort Garry in 1869 and established a provisional government. Just who were these troublemakers, who had their own language, customs and practices, and who now claimed territorial rights? Well,…
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Exploring Prejudice, Miscegenation, and Slavery’s Consequences in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research Volume 1, Issue 1, Article 3 (2011) 5 pages Steven Watson Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia This research paper analyzes Mark Twain’s use of racist speech and racial stereotypes in his novel Pudd’nhead Wilson. Twain has often been…
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Race and American Indian Tribal Nationhood February 2009 44 pages Matthew L. M. Fletcher, Professor of Law & Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center Michigan State University Forthcoming in a 2011 University of Wyoming Law Review issue. American Indian tribes and nations are at a crossroads. One on hand, many tribes like the Cherokee…