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: Celeste Headlee
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Headlee: “Avlana and her colleagues are doing that right now by seeking out those pieces that have not been heard or recorded before. We should listen to his music and feel the same kind of pride people feel when they hear [John Philip] Sousa. This is the sound of our soil. This is the sound…
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I’m Black. I’m White. I’m Both. I’m Neither. GPB Blogs: On Second Thought Georgia Public Broadcasting Atlanta, Georgia 2015-05-20 Celeste Headlee I’m black. My grandfather is William Grant Still, the “Dean of African-American composers.” His skin was the color of maple syrup. Mine is the color of café au lait. My grandfather suffered countless indignities…
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We could tie ourselves in knots trying to untangle the many complexities of racial identity, so let me simply address this with pure science. There is no “race gene,” it’s a biological myth. That doesn’t mean race isn’t real, it means it is a lived experience, rather than something we are born into. As Larry…
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Coming Out As Black, When You Were Hispanic Tell Me More National Public Radio 2013-06-06 Celeste Headlee, Guest Host High school senior Elaine Vilorio wrote that she started seriously contemplating her blackness when she stopped straightening her hair. Elaine Vilorio Teen Elaine Vilorio spent years trying to make sense of her racial identity. She describes…