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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Day: November 19, 2015
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Interview with Filmmaker Adu Lalouschek Rooted In Magazine 2015-10-13 Annina Chirade Adu Lalouschek is a 21-year-old filmmaker from London and recent graduate of the London College of Communication [University of the Arts]. Whilst studying Film and Television at University, Adu met fellow course mate Alex Wondergem, “I first remember meeting Alex when he was drumming…
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At Last …?: Michelle Obama, Beyoncé, Race & History Dædalus Winter 2011, Volume 140, Number 1 Posted Online 2011-03-09 pages 131-141 DOI: 10.1162/DAED_a_00065 Farah J. Griffin, William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies Columbia University In this essay, Griffin brings to the fore two extraordinary black women of our age:…
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America Penguin Books 2012 256 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142000793 eBook ISBN: 9781101161500 Richard Rodriguez In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the…
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Postracial Mestizaje: Richard Rodriguez’s Racial Imagination in an America Where Everyone Is Beginning to Melt American Studies Volume 54, Number 1, 2015 pages 89-113 DOI: 10.1353/ams.2015.0007 Lee Bebout, Associate Professor of English Arizona State University And it seemed to me that the larger questions about America that the color raised is the fact that we…
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Isamu was a boy of the East and the West. Born in the United States to a Japanese father and Scotch-Irish American mother, Isamu grew up in Japan. From his earliest years he felt the tug of his biracial heritage, never quite fitting in or thinking he belonged. Pleasure came, however, from the natural world.…
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Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription Lexington Books May 2012 142 pages Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-7190-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-9057-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-7191-2 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right…