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: Dorothy Roberts
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Talking Race w/ Social Critic/Legal Scholar Dorothy Roberts Blogtalk Radio Tuesday, 2011-10-11 Michelle McCrary, Host Is That Your Child? Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania ITYC is honored to welcome leading legal scholar and social critic…
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Book review: What’s the use of race? Modern governance and the biology of difference BioNews Number 634 (2011-11-21) Dr. Rachael Panizzo Decoding the human genome has revealed details of our evolution and patterns of migration across the world. The study of genetic diversity between ethnic groups can help explain the ways in which race influences…
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Dorothy Roberts – Fatal Invention The Tavis Smiley Show PRI: Public Radio International 2011-07-08 Tavis Smiley, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Professor and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts explores the effects of race-based science in…
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The Biggest Lie About Race? That It’s Real The Root 2011-07-26 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Contributing Editor Dorothy Roberts says race is a social and political construct, and she won’t rest until we know it. There’s a reason we’ll never come to a consensus on the most accurate racial classifications for Barack Obama or Tiger Woods. There’s…
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Fatal Invention: Race and Science The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC Monday, 2011-08-15 Brian Lehrer, Host Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology; Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights University of Pennsylvania Dorothy Roberts, Kirkland & Ellis professor and faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research…
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The other thing is, as Reggie [G. Reginald Daniel] said, Reggie knows that we are all multiracial. He doesn’t need a genetic test to prove that. I mean, we know that. Even though this can tell us new information—and I think it is an opportunity for conversation—it’s not enough because we already know it and…