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: January 2022
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The union of Native Americans and a black church institution
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Racial Passing in Early Modern England Online- via Zoom 2022-01-20, 17:30-19:00Z (12:30-14:00 EST) Lubaaba Al-Azami, Ph.D. Candidate in English Literature University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom Lubaaba al-Azami (@lubaabanama) is a doctoral candidate at the University of Liverpool, funded by the AHRC NWCDTP. Her research project is a decolonial and feminist consideration of early modern…
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Pearl Hobson was among a number of African-American performers who left the United States in the 1900s to somewhat escape racism.
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In this compelling memoir of growing up different, Ijoma Mangold, today one of Germany’s best literary critics, remembers his youth in 1970s Heidelberg and the new Federal Republic, and momentous visits in early adulthood to the USA and Nigeria.
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Join us in the New Year for a virtual discussion with Netflix film “Passing” screenwriter and director Rebecca Hall, alongside actresses Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga.
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The complexities of the color line in the U.S. and Brazil
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This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, and Langston Hughes, and their little-known Chinese allies during World War II and the Cold War—journalist, musician, and Christian activist Liu Liangmo, and Sino-Caribbean dancer-choreographer Sylvia Si-lan Chen.
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Illuminating her inner journey growing up mixed-race in Britain, Esua Jane Goldsmith’s unique memoir exposes the isolation and ambiguities that often come with being ‘an only’.
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“For the love of Jesus Christ, she had become the humble and devout servant of the slaves.”