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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Month: July 2014
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CA+T Interview with Laura Kina Center for Art and Thought 2014-09-07 Rachel Ishikawa, CA+T Interviewer Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Rachel Ishikawa: When did art begin for you? Laura Kina: My mom. She had been a double major in art and sociology in undergrad and worked…
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Little White Lie OTB Productions LLC 2013 66 minutes Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer James Adolphus, Co-Director What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her…
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Black American Indians seek to honor their mixed ancestry Al Jazeera America 2014-07-22 Naureen Khan WASHINGTON — The soaring sound of “Wade in the Water,” a Negro spiritual once said to be used on the Underground Railroad, filled Plymouth Congressional United Church of Christ Saturday morning. But on this particular Saturday, church-goers offered their respects…
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Not So Black and White Tree Spirit Publishing 2012 210 pages 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0615568249 Alexis Wilson Mixed marriage, abandonment, a mother’s secret, same sex parents, Broadway, the Ballet, and AIDS all make up a multi-colored tapestry of this author’s valiant journey towards a strong and clear passage; leaving the…
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How Turbans Helped Some Blacks Go Incognito In The Jim Crow Era Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-07-19 Tanvi Misra There’s a weekly trial on the Internet about who may be stealing culture from whom. Earlier this week, the defendants were Iggy Azalea and white gay men. A while…
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Why Mixed with White isn’t White Hyphen: Asian America Unabrided 2014-07-22 Sharon H. Chang When I wrote my first post for Hyphen, “Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children,” I was deliberately blunt about race. I wrote about how I don’t tell my multiracial son, who presents as a racial minority, that he’s white — but…
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Researchers discuss origins of Melungeon heritage at annual event WCBY.com (News 5) Brisol, Virginia 2014-06-28 Olivia Caridi BIG STONE GAP, Va. – Wayne Winkler discovered he was a Melungeon at 12 years old. His grandmother is a Melungeon. His father is, too. “I had never heard the word, so I asked my relatives what a Melungeon…
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Ghosts of Camptown MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 49-67 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu025 Grace Kyungwon Hong, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles This essay engages the deployment of form in Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of My Ghost Brother (1996), focusing…