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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- 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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Month: February 2014
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Advancing Health Through A Racial Lens: The New Biopolitics of Race, Health, and Justice University of Maryland, College Park Stamp Student Union Banneker Room 2212 Thursday, 2014-02-20, 12:30-15:00 EST (Local Time) Moderated by: Dorothy Roberts J.D., Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, and the inaugural Raymond Pace and…
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Color Without Complex: A Conversation w/ Michaela Angela Davis & Dr. Yaba Blay New York University, Washington, D.C. Abramson Family Auditorium 1307 L Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20005 Tuesday, 2014-02-18, 18:30 EST (Local Time) Michaela Angela Davis Yaba Blay, Ph.D., Professor of Africana Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania What exactly…
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Continuous Frieze Bordering Red Fordham University Press April 2012 78 pages 8 1/2 x 8 1/2 Hardcover ISBN: 9780823243044 Paperback ISBN: 9780823243051 Michelle Naka Pierce, Associate Professor Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons,…
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A Breezy Chameleon, Blurring Social Borders The New York Times 2014-02-16 Jennifer Schuessler, Staff Editor When the literary scholar George Hutchinson was in the archives at Howard University one afternoon a decade ago, he thought he knew which story of a neglected African-American woman writer he was chasing. He was at work on a biography…
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Who Gets to Be A POC?: Self-Identifying & Privilege Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2014-02-09 Nicole Nfonoyim de Hara This post is in response to a great question a friend asked about how the wonderful new book (1)ne Drop:Shifting the Lens on Race by Dr. Yaba Blay and Noelle Théard, featuring portraits of individuals…
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Walking Down The Widening Aisle Of Interracial Marriages Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity Weekend Edition Saturday National Public Radio 2014-02-15 Hansi Lo Wang Editor’s Note: Code Switch has been engaged in a month-long exploration of romance across racial and cultural lines. Follow the Twitter conversation via the hashtag #xculturelove. The numbers are…
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Breath of Freedom The Smithsonian Channel Premieres Monday, 2014-02-17 20:00 EST Narrated by Cuba Gooding Jr. They fought to liberate Germany from Nazi rule, as racism reached unfathomable levels. Their fight would continue back home on American soil. This is the story of the one-million-plus African Americans who fought in World War II. Discover their…