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: May 14, 2013
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Self-Writing, Literary Traditions, and Post-Emancipation Identity: The Case of Mary Seacole Biography Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2000 pages 309-331 DOI: 10.1353/bio.2000.0009 Evelyn J. Hawthorne, Professor of English Howard University, Washington, D.C. “ . . . unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it…
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Slaves In The Family with Edward Ball Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-05-16, 21:00-22:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-05-17, 01:00-02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Edward Ball, Lecturer in English Yale University If you knew that you were a descendant of a slave- owner, would you tell anyone? If you had an opportunity to…
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In new book, two Kentucky families discover surprising racial histories Lexington Herald-Leader Lexington, Kentucky 2011-05-15 Linda B. Blackford Freda Spencer Goble of Paintsville knew that she hailed from a proud and hardworking clan that carved a life out of the hills and hollows of frontier Johnson County. What she didn’t know was that one of…
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Parallel Adele Third World Newsreel 2008 Color 16 minutes USA English Adele Pham, Director/Producer Two half Vietnamese documentary filmmakers, both named Adele, weave a shared narrative of mixed Asian (hapa) experiences through interviews with 7 other mixed race subjects. History, memory, and anecdotes on multiracial ethnicity are represented through archival images, super 8 film, verité,…
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First Person: ‘We’ve made diversity our official civic religion in Leicester’ This is Leicestershire Leicester Mercury 2013-03-27 Ben Ravilious I was delighted to learn the city mayor has given the green light to Leicester’s City of Culture bid. However, I already have nagging doubts about the direction this might be taking. It’s the flogging of…