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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Month: December 2015
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The link between “tourism” and “settler colonialism” in Hawai’i Matador Network 2015-07-29 Bani Amor Maile Arvin is a Native Hawaiian feminist scholar who writes about Native feminist theories, settler colonialism, decolonization, and race and science in Hawai‘i and the broader Pacific. She is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies at…
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Virtual release party for ‘Raising Mixed Race’ – December 11th, 2015 Facebook Release Party 2015-12-11, 17:30-21:30Z (09:30-13:30 PST) Join us for giveaways, Q&A, discussion, and much more as we celebrate the launch of Raising Mixed Race. Publishing in December 2015, Raising Mixed Race by Sharon Chang is the first book to examine the complex task…
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Analogizing Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage Philosophy and Rhetoric Volume 48, Number 4, 2015 pages 561-582 Isaac West, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee “Like race” analogies have been critiqued from various perspectives, and this article enters that conversation to engage those criticisms from a rhetorical perspective. In short, this article makes a…
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Crossing the Line: Multiracial Comedians University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-21, 16:00-17:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This full-length documentary (2007, 59 mins.) analyzes how mixed-race comedians mediate multiracial identities and humor. Crossing lines of racial, ethnic, and cultural acceptability…
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Chasing Daybreak: A Film About Mixed Race in America University of Michigan Shapiro Undergraduate Library 919 South University Avenue Screening Room 2160 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1185 2016-01-19, 12:00-14:00 CST (Local Time) Karen E Downing, Host Contact This is one of a year-long series of events that explore what it means to be multiracial in a…
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Sock and Buskin’s new production combines history and mysticism The Brown Daily Herald Providence, Rhode Island 2015-11-16 Jennifer Shook, Staff Writer ‘The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry’ examines journey of Black Seminoles to Oklahoma In Sock and Buskin’s newest production “The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry,” legend and history come together to present…
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I’ve been reading a new book by Sharon H. Chang called “Raising Mixed Race.” You might remember Sharon, a Seattle-based writer and scholar, from her guest post A Multiracial Asian Mom Wonders How Her Son Will See Himself (Routledge 2015). With chapter titles that are analogies to home construction (Foundation, Framing, Wiring, etc.), the book…
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Third film festival La Voz News: The voice of De Anza College since 1967 Cupertino, California 2015-10-22 Bojana Cvijic, Staff Writer De Anza students saw the Lacey Schwartz’s film “Little White Lie” and had a discussion about race and identity issues during the Third Film Festival on Oct. 15 at Euphrat Museum. Members of the…