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: July 2017
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This wise, witty essay explores the persistence and legacy of scientific racism, which misappropriates the authority of science and undermines it by converting it into a social weapon.
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In 1894, Ida Platt became the first African-American woman lawyer in Illinois. She was one of only five black women lawyers in the country and the only one able to maintain a law practice.
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241 years ago, our founders signed the Declaration of Independence. To celebrate July 4th, we brought together their descendants.
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There’s a building in Harlem that houses, some say, the largest collection of Black history in the world. At the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, you can see and touch original documents like the Malcolm X papers and the Nate King Cole papers.
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CFC: Call for Conveners: Seeking Host for AfroEuropeans Conference, 2019 H-Black-Europe: dedicated to the study of Europe and the Black Diaspora Friday, 2017-06-30 Kira Thurman CfC – Call for Conveners: 7th AfroEuropes Conference 2019 The research network behind Afroeuropeans: Black Cultures and Identities in Europe conferences is now looking for a scholar or a team…
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Trevor Noah began his career as a successful stand-up comedian in South Africa. “The Daily Show” host has travelled a long way since then, but his humour is as biting as ever.
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So how about this idea that biracial and multiracial children are the key to a post-racial future utopia?