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: Anita Heiss
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“I’m Aboriginal. I’m Just Not The Aboriginal You Expect Me To Me.” // REVIEW OF “Am I Black Enough For You?” By Anita Heiss #AWW2016 A Keyboard and An Open Mind: The Blog of Avid Reader and Writer, Emily Witt 2016-08-15 Emily Witt Title: Am I Black Enough For You? Author: Anita Heiss Genre: Memoir/Non-fiction…
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Respecting and Celebrating Black Writing and Storytelling presented by Dr Anita Heiss Flinders University 182 Victoria Square Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2015-07-09, 18:00-19:00 ACDT (Local Time) Anita Heiss A NAIDOC Week event co-hosted by Yunggorendi First Nations Centre with the School of Humanities and Creative Arts Anita will address staff, students and members of the…
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ONExSAMENESS: Dr Anita Heiss at TEDxBrisbane TEDx Talks 2013-10-25 Anita Heiss “It’s and I-dentity, not a YOU-dentity, stop telling me who I am!” Anita is a contemporary Australian author. She is a Wiradjuri woman. She is an Indigenous Literacy Day Ambassador and an Adjunct Professor with Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning, UTS amongst many other…
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Am I Black Enough For You? By Anita Heiss [Milatovic Review] Transnational Literature Volume 6, Number 2, May 2014 3 pages Maja Milatovic University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Anita Heiss: Am I Black Enough for You? (Random House: Sydney, 2012) Anita Heiss’ Am I Black Enough for You? is a compelling and deeply affective…
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Winner of the Vic Premier’s Award for Indigenous Writing.The story of an urban-based high achieving Aboriginal woman working to break down stereotypes and build bridges between black and white Australia.