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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- 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: June 2014
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“Elsie Roxborough started out to shake the stigma of color; when that proved impossible, she joined step with the oppressor. Her life as a disguised alien in the middle reaches of the white social register did not satisfy her ambition or her pride. Perhaps no happy ending awaited her. The welcome thawings of racial prejudice…
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How Race-Studies Scholars Can Respond to Their Haters Vitae A service of The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-06-27 Stacey Patton, Senior Enterprise Reporter Graduate school prepares students for a range of intellectual and professional endeavors. Unfortunately, responding to scholarly insults and academic shade-throwing isn’t one of them. But for scholars in the fields of race…
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UCLA Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 – Mixed Stories Team Mixed Show University of California, Los Angeles Mixed Heritage Conference 2014 2014-06-18 Recorded at the Mixed Student Union at UCLA’s Mixed Heritage Conference, April 2014. Participants at the conference share their stories. *Our apologies to the people who we filmed but did not make it into…
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Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at… the Mermaid Parade The New York Times 2014-06-23 Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York with, from left, his son, Dante; his wife, Chirlane McCray; and his daughter, Chiara, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday. [Tina Fineberg/Associated Press]…
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An Evening with Hip Hop Scholar/Activist and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate, Rosa Clemente Yemaya Pictures California State University, Los Angeles 2014-05-08, 20:00 PDT 5151 State University Drive Annenberg Science Building 132 (Science Building Wing B, Lecture Hall) Los Angeles, California 90032 From May 8, 2014. The Pan-African Studies Department at California State University,…
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Stunning Portraits of Mixed-Race Families Slate 2014-06-24 David Rosenberg, Editor of Slate’s Behold blog Fascinated by the evolution of identity, the photographer Cyjo, who styles her name CYJO, has created a series of portraits that examines how race, ethnicity, and heritage contextualize a person as an individual, and how they coexist within the framework of…
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Elective Race: Recognizing Race Discrimination in the Era of Racial Self-Identification Georgetown Law Journal Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Volume 102, Issue 5 (2014) pages 1501-1572 Camille Gear Rich, Associate Professor of Law University of Southern California, Gould School of Law This Article posits that we are in a key moment of discursive and ideological transition,…