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: May 2015
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How A Latina-Asian American Ascended Amazon’s Ranks NBC News 2015-05-29 Stephen A. Nuño, Associate Professor of Politics & International Affairs Northern Arizona Univeristy If you have ever bought anything from the online retail giant, Amazon.com, you probably didn’t know that a multicultural woman is one of the managers leading the work behind the scenes with…
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#471: Mixed Race in a Box: Teaching Mixed Race in the 21st Century The 28th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 2015-05-26 through 2015-05-30 Friday, 2015-05-29, 15:30-17:30 EDT (Local Time) In Fall 2013, The Asian American Literary Review published Mixed…
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Mystery, and Discovery, on the Trail of a Creole Music Pioneer The New York Times 2015-05-28 Campbell Robertson, Southern correspondent PINEVILLE, La. — Somewhere among the thousands beneath a grassy hill here lies the body of Amédé Ardoin. He was singular in life: one of the greatest accordion players ever to come out of south…
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#312: Mixed Foundations: Supporting and Empowering Multiracial Student Organizations The 28th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 2015-05-26 through 2015-05-30 Thursday, 2015-05-28, 08:30-10:00 Multiracial college students face pervasive monoracist attitudes and structural oppression. These students, like many students from historically…
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#262: Researching and Publishing on Multiracial Topics The 28th Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20009 2015-05-26 through 2015-05-30 Wednesday, 2015-05-27, 15:30-17:30 EDT (Local Time) Columbia 3, Terrace Level From the politics of labeling and counting mixed race students in research,…
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Tony Williams’ “Wilderness” and Mixed-Race Identity through Jazz Soundscapes and Such: Critical Thoughts on Sonic Subjects 2015-05-27 Shawn M. Higgins University of Connecticut Tony Williams (source: Wikipedia) Why do song writers choose the song titles they do? Perhaps Herbie Hancock’s 1980 track “4 A.M.” was recorded at that exact time – or maybe finished then?…
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On The Cherokee Rose, Historical Fiction, and Silences in the Archives Process: a blog for american history 2015-05-26 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Martha S. Jones Martha S. Jones is the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan on…
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Novelist Mat Johnson Explores The ‘Optical Illusion’ Of Being Biracial Weekend Edition Sunday National Public Radio 2015-05-24 Growing up in Philadelphia, Mat Johnson lived mostly with his mother in a black neighborhood. The son of an African-American mother and an Irish-American father, his skin was so light that he might have passed for white. But…
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Crossed lines The University of Chicago Magazine May-June 2015 Lydiayle Gibson Allyson Hobbs, AM’02, PhD’09. (Photography by Jennifer Pottheiser) A secret in her own family led Allyson Hobbs, AM’02, PhD’09, to uncover the hidden history of racial passing. “You know, we have that in our own family too.” That was the bombshell, the offhand remark…