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: Caty Borum Chattoo
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Loving v. Virginia: Exploring biracial identity and reality in America 50 years after a landmark civil rights milestone The Conversation 2017-06-07 Caty Borum Chattoo , Director of the Center for Media & Social Impact, American University School of Communication American University, Washington, D.C. Mildred and Richard Loving in 1965. AP Photo Fifty years ago, on June…
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Mixed: Documentary to Explore Interracial Families American University Washington, D.C. 2016-12-15 Gregg Sangillo, Online Writer School of Communication professors Leena Jayaswal (l) and Caty Borum Chattoo (r) are making a film about interracial families in the United States. It took a while for documentary filmmakers Leena Jayaswal and Caty Borum Chattoo to realize that they…
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‘MIXED’ Values: Biraciality in Non-Post-Racial America Documentary Magazine International Documentary Association 2016-09-23 Caty Borum Chattoo, Co-Director Center for Media & Social Impact, Washington, D.C. Filmmakers Caty Borum Chattoo (front left) and Leena Jayaswal (front right) with the first mixed-race couple in North Carolina after the Loving v. Virginia decision. The comments—and the fetishizing perspectives—were naively…