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 2015
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Respecting and Celebrating Black Writing and Storytelling presented by Dr Anita Heiss Flinders University 182 Victoria Square Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2015-07-09, 18:00-19:00 ACDT (Local Time) Anita Heiss A NAIDOC Week event co-hosted by Yunggorendi First Nations Centre with the School of Humanities and Creative Arts Anita will address staff, students and members of the…
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Rag Radio 2015-07-03 – Historian Victoria Bynum on Southern History, Racial Violence & the Confederate Flag Rag Radio: Driving in the Left Lane! Cutting-edge alternative journalism, politics, and culture in the spirit of the Sixties underground press. KOOP 91.7 FM, Austin Texas Friday, 2015-07-03, 19:00-20:00Z (14:00-15:00 CDT) Thorne Dreyer, Host Victoria Bynum, Emeritus Professor of…
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Reclaiming Jewish Identity: An Aboriginal People of the Middle East The Huffington Post 2015-06-07 Binyamin Arazi Starting this September, after decades of lobbying efforts by Arab-American organizations, the United States Census Bureau will begin testing a new category for Americans of Middle Eastern and North African origin. In conjunction with this new listing, no less…
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Is it ’cause I’m not black? moniquerants: Education Lover. Discoverer of Healthy Eating. Headphone Raver. Opinionated Ranter. 2015-07-06 Monique Bell Years of mistaken identity and assumed whiteness have understandably left me with a miniature chip on my shoulder, and what better way to deal with that chip than writing to the world about it? In…
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When I Was White The Chronicle Review The Chronicle of Higher Education 2015-07-06 Sarah Valentine, Visiting Assistant Professor of English Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Sarah Valentine as a girl, with her two brothers (Source: Family photo) Rachel Dolezal’s recent unmasking as a white woman living as black sparked a debate about the legitimacy of “transracial”…
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I am interested in black and mixed-race dancers, ballerinas in particular, because I see almost none in the major classical companies. Like me, the gay boy who didn’t want to be Prince Siegfied but Odette, they too are “other.” Now, when I am teaching “swan arms” to my students I think of Darci Kistler and…
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5 black Chicagoans who passed for white The Chicago Sun-Times 2015-06-16 Kim Janssen, Staff Reporter A baseball player who broke baseball’s color line decades before Jackie Robinson was born. A pioneering politician who has a West Side school named after him. An Emmy-winning “blonde bombshell.” A poet at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance. And…
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Dolezal, Jenner raise fundamental questions about identity The Boston Globe 2015-06-16 Farrah Stockman, Globe Staff Finally, Rachel Dolezal — the self-identified black daughter of two Caucasian parents — has spoken. And finally, she was asked a question I’ve been wondering for days: When did it start? “At a very young age,” she replied. “About 5…
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Brown Theology, Critical Race Theory, and the Laws of Burgos Jesus for Revolutionaries 2015-06-29 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles The fervent cries of Montesino soon reached the ears of King Ferdinand. On March 20, 1512, the king ordered Governor Diego Columbus to silence…