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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Day: April 10, 2015
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Mashpee Musician Produces Documentary About Native, African Music CapeNews.net Falmouth, Massachusetts 2015-01-19 Sam Houghton Morgan J. Peters, a Mashpee troubadour in Afro-Native-American-inspired music, with his band the Groovalottos, is on his way to producing a full-length album as well as a documentary. The “mini-film” will explore the combination of black and Native American music and…
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Blaxicans (Black Mexicans) of California African American – Latino World 2015-04-07 Bill Smith This post is not about the black Mexicans who were historically born and raised in Mexico, but those born and raised in Los Angeles, California’s metropolitan area to Mexican and African-American parents. According to the University of Southern California researcher Walter Thompson-Hernández,…
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The Remix: Dr. Yaba Blay on Colorism, Kendrick Lamar & Trevor Noah The Remix with Dr. James Peterson WHYY 90.9 FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-04-01 James Braxton Peterson, Host and Associate professor of English Lehigh University, Lehigh, Pennsylvania Comedy Central has named South African comedian Trevor Noah to helm “The Daily Show” when John Stewart departs…
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How I Learned to Stop Worshipping Whiteness While Growing Up Biracial For Harriet 2015-04-08 Joleen Brantle I haven’t always been very racially aware. When I was a child Pokémon cards, cartoons, and school were of vastly greater importance to me. I was raised in a very diverse city with a strong Latino presence. I had…
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Biracial Identity, which do you identify with? The Spartan Daily: Serving San Jose State since 1934 San Jose, California 2015-04-09 Andrea Sandoval Identity is a complicated matter; everyone has one, but rarely are people aware of how they get one. The boundaries, symbols and language that make identity stand out are often unclear. What qualities…