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 2016
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“Along with my personal identity struggles, the historical legacy of racism in the United States for communities of color informs my experiences. My current work responds to the police killings of unarmed Black men, women, and children across America. While this is a constant attack on the Black community, the increased international media attention, public…
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How street kids in the Bronx taught me it’s OK to be biracial and gay Fusion 2016-05-18 Terry Blas As a “nerdy, Mexican, gay, Mormon child of the ’80s and ’90s,” cartoonist Terry Blas had trouble figuring out his identity… until an experience in New York taught him a valuable lesson. … Read the entire…
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Michael Dixon is a California-born artist who teaches as an associate professor at Albion College and was recently awarded studio space in New York through the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program. His paintings direct us toward controversy, self-reflection, and an appreciation for the value of these experiences.
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A Culture of Identity Choice: Assertions of Mixed Race, Transgender, and Other Identities and the Implications for Politics Stanford University Black Community Services Center The Brandon Room Wednesday, 2016-05-18, 12:00 PDT (Local Time) Natalie Masuoka, Associate Professor of Political Science Tufts University While Americans have always connected with different social identities, today we find the…
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‘We are Iranians’: Rediscovering the history of African slavery in Iran Middle East Eye 2016-05-09 Jillian D’Amours ST CATHARINES, Canada – Behnaz Mirzai’s students often say her office is like a museum. With shards of ancient pottery recovered from the mountains of Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province, colourful vases from Isfahan, and tribal masks from…
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Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House Literary Hub 2016-04-21 Bridget Read Brooklyn, New York Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism In November of last year, Tin House published the text of a speech given by the author Claire Vaye Watkins, in which she spoke…
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Cannes: Interracial Marriage Drama ‘Loving’ Throws Hat in Oscar Ring The Hollywood Reporter 2016-05-16 Gregg Kilday Director Jeff Nichols and stars Joel Edgerton and Ruth Negga make a strong first-impression as their new film about the landmark Supreme Court case is unveiled. Loving, writer/director Jeff Nichols’ new film about Richard and Mildred Loving — the…
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Zwarte Piet is a product of the Netherlands’ long involvement in the slave trade Media Diversified 2016-05-05 Karen Williams The first time that I saw a photograph of the Zwarte Piet celebrations in the Netherlands, the door to questions of slavery in my own life swung wide open. There – right there – looking back…
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U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16) Natasha Trethewey New Letters On The Air 2016-02-12 Catalog Number: 20160212 Angela Elam, Producer/Host In the first part of this interview, Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey talks about her work that deals with history, racism, and family, including her first creative non-fiction book, Beyond Katrina:…
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Stranger In The Village – A Visual Essay Phoebe Boswell, Visual Artist 2015-12-15 Artist’s Talk at Bla Stallet Konsthallen, Angered, Gothenburg, Sweden September 2015 The term ‘residency’ is an interesting one to me – it offers a sense of belonging, of being present, resident, which is artificial of course since you are more often than…