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: July 28, 2015
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The Original Rachel Dolezal Was a Jew Named Mezz Mezzrow Forward 2015-06-16 Seth Rogovoy As we all know, Rachel Dolezal was by no means the first white American to take on aspects of African-Americanness in her persona — calling Elvis, is anybody home? — although she will go down in history as one of the…
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“Fake Black?” brian bantum: theology, culture, and life in-between 2015-06-12 Brian Bantum, Associate Professor of Theology Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington Theorist Stuart Hall suggests identity is better understood as identification. That is, our identities are not fixed as essential realities whether gender, or race or nationality. We are always living into or out of…
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It’s My Party and I’ll Be Biracial if I Want to College Magazine 2015-07-23 Emanuel Griffin University of Florida The fact that I am half black and half Asian is the coolest thing about me. It’s like being a one-man Wu-Tang Clan. It’s like being the handsome result of Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker having…
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Black, Jewish and challenging ideas about the face of federation Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) New York, New York 2014-12-01 Rebecca Spence (JTA) — When Ilana Kaufman, a program officer at the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation, arrived at San Quentin State Prison for a meeting with the Jewish chaplain at California’s oldest correctional facility, the…
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Op-Ed: For black Orthodox Jews, constant racism is exhausting Jewish Telegraphic Agency New York, New York 2015-07-16 Chava Shervington, President Jewish Multiracial Network NEW YORK (JTA) – When I was 24, an Orthodox matchmaker tried to set me up on a date with a man older than my parents. When I objected, she told me,…
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Long Time No See: A memoir of fathers, daughters and games of chance Periscope 2015-07-24 336 pages 204mm x 138mm Paperback ISBN: 9781859643969 Hannah Lowe Hannah Lowe’s father “Chick”, a half-Chinese, half-black Jamaican immigrant, worked long hours at night to support his family – except Chick was no ordinary working man. A legendary gambler, he…
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Notable Black and Mixed Race men in Renaissance Europe Bino & Fino: Embracing My Child’s Black African Identity 2015-07-23 Maria Tumolo We are thrilled to bring you our very first guest post from children’s author Maria Tumolo. She is also writes a blog called Tiger Tales which explores parenting as an expat mixed heritage family.…
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Here’s what I did when racists complained about an interracial family in my magazine The Washington Post 2015-07-27 Scott Vogel, Editor-in-Chief Houstonia, a city magazine based in Houston, Texas Offended by this image? Houstonia magazine doesn’t want your business. (Photo by Chris Skiles/Houstonia) Don’t compare me to business owners who refuse to serve LGBT customers…