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: May 2014
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Herb Jeffries cheerfully pays the price of choosing his race
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“Loving Day” with founder, Ken Tanabe A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) Busboys and Poets Langston Room 14 & V, N.W. Washington, D.C. 2014-06-01, 17:00-19:00 EDT (Local Time) This month A.C.T.O.R. presents a celebration and discussion about “Loving Day” with founder, Ken Tanabe. Join us for an enlightening discussion on multiracial identity and interracial relationships!…
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‘Good Hair’: A Cape Verdean Struggles With Her Racial Identity The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-05-27 Ana Sofia De Brito Ana Sofia De Brito graduated from Dartmouth College in 2012 with a major in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies. This essay is adapted from a chapter in the book Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell…
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Future Children Campus MoveFest 2014-05-03 Emily Eaglin—Captain, Director, Writer, Producer, Editor University of Maryland, Baltimore County A comedy/documentary about race relations especially pertaining to racial micro-aggressions of those who are more than one race. Created by Emily Eaglin’s Crew at University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2014 as part of Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest…
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MixedRaceStudies.org Celebrates Its Fifth Year! 2014-05-29 Steven F. Riley This month, MixedRaceStudies.org celebrates its fifth year. The purpose of the site, to provide a non-commercial gateway to interdisciplinary English language scholarship about multiraciality, has held steady for the last five years. Since then, the amount of content has mushroomed to over 7,000 posts and I…
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The Politics of Race in Panama: Afro-Hispanic and West Indian Literary Discourses of Contention University Press of Florida 2014-04-15 200 pages 6 x 9 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-8130-4986-1 Sonja Stephenson Watson, Associate Professor of Spanish University of Texas, Arlington This volume tells the story of two cultural groups: Afro-Hispanics, whose ancestors came to Panama as…
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‘Black Atlantic’ Cultural Politics as Reflected in Panamanian Literature University of Tennesee, Knoxville August 2005 256 pages Sonja Stephenson Watson A Dissertation Presented for the Doctor of Philosophy Degree The diaspora experience is characterized by hybridity, diversity and above all, difference. The nature of the diaspora experience therefore precludes an exclusive articulation of identity. Black…