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
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- 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: September 2021
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In this opinion feature, Dr. Annabelle Atkin — an assistant professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN — explores the unique challenges that Multiracial people face in attaining and maintaining well-being and offers suggestions on how to mitigate those challenges.
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Plessy v. Ferguson: An Excerpt from Firsthand Louisiana University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press 2020-08-13 Devon Lord, Editor In Chief Discover the history of the Pelican State through the eyes of the people who lived it and shaped its course. In Firsthand Louisiana: Primary Sources in the History of the State, historians Janet Allured, John…
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Recalling and Reimagining Vietnam: A Conversation with Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith World Literature Today 2019-08-12 Mary E. Adams, Associate Professor of English University of Louisiana, Monroe Genaro Kỳ Lý Smith was born in Nha Trang, Vietnam, and raised in California. His first book, The Land Baron’s Sun: The Story of Lý Loc and His Seven…
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The Story Of J.P. Morgan’s ‘Personal Librarian’ — And Why She Chose To Pass As White Code Switch National Public Radio 2021-08-31 Karen Grigsby Bates, Senior Correspondent Marie Benedict (left) and Victoria Christopher Murray Phil Atkins This summer on Code Switch, we’re talking to some of our favorite authors about books that taught us about…
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Defying Categories: An Interview with Hollay Ghadery White Wall Review Toronto, Ontario, Canada 2021-09-13 Rosabel Smegal and Isobel Carnegie, Managing Editors “A lot of people are saying I’m brave for writing this,” Hollay Ghadery tells us, grinning through the screen. “But I wish it wasn’t seen as so brave. I wish it was the way…
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In 2015, the Mexican state counted how many of its citizens identified as Afro-Mexican for the first time since independence. “Finding Afro-Mexico” reveals the transnational interdisciplinary histories that led to this celebrated reformulation of Mexican national identity.
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The assumption that more racial diversity equals more racial equality is a dangerous myth. Racial diversity can function as a cloaking device, concealing the most powerful forms of White supremacy while giving the appearance of racial progress. John Blake, “White supremacy, with a tan,” CNN, September 4, 2021. https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/04/us/census-browning-of-america-myth-blake/index.html.
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Phil Wang, the stand-up comic you may recall for his viral video spoofing a Tom Hiddleston advert, has been baring his soul, or at least some of it, in his new book “Sidesplitter.”