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: November 24, 2012
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Critical Theories: Hybridity and African Diaspora Rutgers University, Newark Spring 2013 Belinda Edmondson, Professor and Director, Women’s & Gender Studies This course will investigate the concept of the hybrid society, or “hybridity”, in African-American and Caribbean literature. Hybridity here refers to both culturally and ethnically hybrid communities and peoples. Specifically, we will concentrate on the…
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FYS 102N – Exploring Mixed Identities University of Maryland, Baltimore County Honors College Summer 2012 Jessica Guzman-Rea The aim of this course is to move beyond prevalent monoracial discourses by examining identities and experiences from a mixed race/mixed ethnicity perspective. This course explores many topics such as the history of racialization, processes of othering, acceptance…
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AFR 108: What Passes for Freedom?: Mixed-Race Figures in U.S. Culture Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Spring 2013 Cross Listed as AMST107, ENGL108 Vincent J. Schleitwiler, Assistant Professor of English The idea of a distinct category of individuals identified as “biracial,” “multiracial,” or “mixed-race” has become increasingly prominent over the past few decades, despite the inescapable…
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n this episode Al Letson and guest producer Lu Olkowski visit a tiny town [East Jackson/Waverly] in the Appalachian foothills of Ohio where, for a century, residents have shared the common bond of identifying as African-American despite the fact that they look white. Racial lines have been blurred to invisibility, and people inside the same…
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Life Stories, Local Places, and the Networks of Free Women of Color in Early North America 127th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association New Orleans, Louisiana 2013-01-03 through 2013-01-06 AHA Session 72 Friday, 2013-01-04: 08:30-10:00 CST (Local Time) Preservation Hall, Studio 7 (New Orleans Marriott) Chair: Daina Ramey Berry, University of Texas, Austin Papers:…