Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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- 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: CBC Radio
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Métis author says the published version of her 1973 memoir ‘didn’t tell the complete story’
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“Often race is used as a variable without people really defining it biologically, and that is a very minimum we should expect from a scientific variable that you’ll be able to define it biologically. They just treat these social categories as though they are biological without really doing the legwork to figure out why that…
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A look at the re-emergence of ‘scientific’ attempts to explain perceived racial differences
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Rhonda Fils-Aimé was adopted by a white family as a baby, and her biological father, Philippe, had no idea
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‘I spend a lot of time looking at my children and wondering to myself what their skin tone means in 2019’
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“Historically, in the United States, if you had one drop of black blood, you were defined as black. You had various names for people who looked as white as their master, but they were defined as black. I didn’t grow up identifying as black because of that — for me it was more about pride,…
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American novelist Danzy Senna draws on her experience growing up in an interracial family in her edgy, prize-winning fiction. In her latest novel, “New People,” she writes with insight and subversive humour about what it means to be half-black and half-white.
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Musician Nick Ferrio is based in Peterborough, Ont., but his roots are in Saskatchewan. He recently read Maria Campbell’s memoir “Half-Breed” and its account of an Indigenous woman’s encounters with racism, and the book resonated with him, thanks to his own Cree ancestry.
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We meet the director [Jenna Rodgers] of a new play opening tonight in Toronto and talk about what it means to be mixed-race in Canada right now.
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New data released in October by Statistics Canada reveals a surprising spike in Canadians identifying as Métis.