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: June 15, 2013
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“An Indian is an Indian regardless of the degree of Indian blood or which little government card they do or do not possess.” —Wilma Pearl Mankiller, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief (1985 to 1995)
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The Truth About Loving v. Virginia and Why it Matters MixedRaceStudies.org 2013-06-12 Steven F. Riley On June 12, 1967, the United States Supreme Court ruled in the landmark civil-rights case Loving v. Virginia that Virginia’s anti-miscegenation law (known as the Racial Integrity Act of 1924) was unconstitutional. It did not as some suggest, legalize interracial marriage in the…
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Standing on Both Feet: Voices of Older Mixed-Race Americans [Interview] KING-TV 5, Seattle Washington 2013-06-11 Margaret Larsen, Host New Day Northwest June 12 marks the 46th Anniversary of a landmark ruling by the United States Supreme Court which overturned a ban on interracial marriage that had been place on many states. But even before the…