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
- 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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Tag: Marcia Alesan Dawkins
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Dances With Aliens? Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Dr. Dawkins shares her thoughts on multiracialism, media and James Cameron’s blockbuster film “Avatar” at the 2011 American Studies Association Conference.
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The Film You Didn’t See – Who’s the Alien, Cowboy? Cultural Weekly 2011-08-25 Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University Ulli K. Ryder, Visiting Scholar Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Brown University Chances are you didn’t see Cowboys and Aliens. The film won’t get to $100 million box office in…
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Marvel’s Mixed Race “Ultimate Spider-Man” The Huffington Post 2011-08-03 Marcia Dawkins, Visiting Scholar Brown University As a kid from Queens, NY it’s not hard to understand why Spider-Man has always been my favorite superhero. Aside from a shared geographical location Spider-Man reflected many of the qualities of urban youth. He came from a working class…
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Marcia Dawkins to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #217 – Marcia Dawkins When: Wednesday, 2011-07-27…