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: October 11, 2013
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Review: The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing The College Dropout: Book blog and occasional wisdom on paleo, making money, and life 2013-10-10 Charles Franklin The United States of the United Races: A Utopian History of Racial Mixing by Greg Carter My rating: 4 of 5 stars Pros: Historical…
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My racial composition and my position in the world are realities which I alone may determine… I do not expect to be told what I should consider myself to be. —Jean Toomer to his publisher Horace Liveright (September 5, 1923)
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Continuing this discussion of terminology, I prefer mixed race over multiracial, to distance myself from those who wanted to create a new category for racially mixed people. Coverage of the 2000 census gave the impression that all within the Multiracial Movement wanted this. In reality, most wanted some useful identifier of mixed heritage, and the…
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What’s History Got to Do with It? Evolving Classifications of Race Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2014-01-25, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Three of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How did historical distinctions emerge, such as: mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, creole, 1/16th Native American…? What is the one-drop rule? Why do…
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What’s Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History and Genealogy Brooklyn Historical Society Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations Othmer Library Saturday, 2013-12-07, 15:00-18:00 EST (Local Time) Part Two of the reading series Quantifying Bloodlines How do stories help us to understand the ways in which we dissect lineage? Bring in your own family tree,…
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Black Seminoles and The Underground Railroad AC Bilbrew Library 150 E. El Segundo Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90061 310-538-3350 Saturday, 2013-11-23, 14:30 PST (Local Time) Phil Wilkes Fixico Celebrate Native American Heritage Month by exploring the history of free Blacks and fugitive slaves who escaped to Florida between the 1600s and 1800s, forging alliances with…