Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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: March 2015
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The Face of Japan Is Changing, But Some Aren’t Ready Kokatu 2015-03-13 Brian Ashcraft Eriana Miyamoto Change happens slowly in Japan, but it does happen. You wake up one day, and things that weren’t possible years ago are happening today. Nowhere is that more evident than in the woman who will represent Japan in the…
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San Francisco Lithographer: African American Artist Grafton Tyler Brown Arts Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) July 2014 Amy De Simone, Research Consultant Kansas State University by Robert J. Chandler. University of Oklahoma Press, February 2014. 264 p. ill. ISBN 9780806144108 (cl.), $36.95. More than just a book about one man, San Francisco Lithographer: African…
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Finding Grafton Tyler Brown, African American Artist Keith Skinner: Writer: Renegade Image: Fiction, memoir, travel & essays 2014-05-25 Keith Skinner I had never heard of Grafton Tyler Brown before. I was just trying to develop a character for my historical novel-in-progress, The Relentless Harvest. The Search for a Character It all started with a desire…
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Was Elliot Rodger Asian American? Reappropriate.co 2015-03-10 Jenn Reappropriate For weeks following the Isla Vista shooting, killer Elliot Rodger was described in mainstream media as a young White man. This was a convenient narrative: Rodger was seen as yet another example of the maligned young vengeance-seeking White male outcast (like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold…
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What was it like raising three biracial children? WBEZ 91.5 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-06 Bill Healy Rosa Ramirez was in basic training in the Army, when she came across a girl in her barracks with red hair and blue eyes. “What kind of blood do you have?” Ramirez asked her. “Do you see the world blue?”…
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Color Erases, Color Paints Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life 2015-03-10 Isaiah Rothstein Each day this week, the Scroll will be featuring a post from a writer at JN Magazine—short for “Jewnited Nations”—a website “here to change the monochromatic monolithic perception of Judaism.” Each post has been commissioned and edited by MaNishtana, the pseudonym…