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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Tag: The Guardian
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After my school experiences, any demands to explain where I came from disconcerted me. My parents taught me to hold my head erect, to look directly at adults who addressed me, to smile with my eyes not just my teeth, to speak clearly, and to be conspicuously open, transparent and honest. My dad said that…
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My Welsh mother met my father during the war. From childhood, I have grown to dread the question: ‘Where are you from?’
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The author and critic discusses why we should move away from race categories defined ‘using plantation logic’ – and suggests ‘retiring from race’
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All his life, people have assumed the theatre director is mixed race – and he was happy to embrace that identity. Then he was accused of faking it
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When Scotland’s national poet travelled to Nigeria to ask her birth father if he ever thought of her, he said no. Does it hurt to put this on stage? And should the next ‘makar’ be on £30,000?
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Combs, braids and Bob Marley’s bad-hair days are explored in this richly researched cultural history
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Their fathers visited the Philippines to buy sex: now a generation of children want to track them down
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After studying textiles at Middlesex Polytechnic, [Andrea] Levy worked briefly as a designer, a dresser and a receptionist. But it was not until she was 26 that a racial awareness session with colleagues at an Islington sex education project gave her a “rude awakening”. “We were asked to split into two groups, black and white.”…
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Award-winning author of “Small Island” and “The Long Song” had cancer