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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Nella Larsen and the Veil of Race American Literary History Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer, 1997) pages 329-349 George Hutchinson People see what they want to see, and then they’ll claim you. Not claim you, but label you. Because it’s not really about claiming you. The white people don’t want you around. You’re not really…
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Professor Marsha Daria 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: #160 – Professor Marsha D. Daria…
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3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival 2010-06-12 through 2010-06-13 Japanese American National Museum 69 East 1st Street Los Angeles, California The 3rd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival will take place at the Japanese American National Museum, 369 East 1st Street, June 12-13, 2010, in downtown Los Angeles. In the Obama age,…
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AM Northwest KATU-TV Live Interview with Heidi W. Durrow AM Northwest KATU-TV (Portland, Oregon) Friday, 2010-05-21 09:00-10:00 PDT (Local time), (12:00-1300 EDT, 16:00-17:00Z) Heidi Durrow appeared on the program AM Norwthwest on KATU-TV (Portland, Oregon) to discuss her new book, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky. You may view the recorded segment below by…
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Biracial Children Learn To Self-Identify Tell Me More National Public Radio 2010-04-20 Michel Martin, Host Interview with: Kip Fulbeck, Professor of Performative Studies, Video University of California, Santa Barbara Author of: Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids Peggy Orenstein Author of: Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Fertility Doctors, An Oscar,…
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MixedRaceStudies.org A Paper Presented at Who Counts & Who’s Counting? 38th Annual Conference National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference Session: The race in “mixed” race? Reiterations of power and identity Washington, DC 2010-04-10 Steven F. Riley Abstract In the paper I describe the origins of www.MixedRaceStudies.org a non-commercial website that provides a gateway to contemporary interdisciplinary (sociology,…
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The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: A Novel Algonquin Books 2010 256 pages ISBN-13: 9781565126800 Heidi W. Durrow This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new…