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: Heidi Durrow
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In “Shades of Gray” Molly Littlewood McKibbin offers a social and literary history of multiracialism in the twentieth-century United States.
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The canary in the post-racial coal mine Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 2013 35 pages DOI: 10.7282/T30Z71WG Roxanne Huertas A Capstone Project submitted to the Graduate School-Camden Rutgers-The State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Liberal Studies The American mulatto has been employed by…
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‘We Are Not Alone’: Festival Celebrates Multiracial America NBC News 2015-06-12 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Nearly 700 people from across the country—including artists, writers, comedians, musicians, multiracial and multicultural families—are expected to gather at the Mixed Remixed Festival on June 13 at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, to celebrate the stories and lives…
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Season 2, Episode 11: Writer Thomas Chatterton Williams The Mixed Experience 2015-01-08 Heidi Durrow, Host We continue the second part of the season with writer Thomas Chatterton Williams author of Losing My Cool and the newly published essay in Virginia Quarterly Review “Black and Blue and Blond.” Listen to the episode here. Download the episode…
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Season 2, Episode 6: Stanford Prof. Allyson Hobbs Talks about A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life The Mixed Experience 2014-10-20 Heidi Durrow, Host Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University I was lucky enough to get an advance reading copy of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing…
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Mixed Remixed Festival Reveals 2014 Schedule Mixed Remixed Festival March 2014 Heidi Durrow (Los Angeles, CA) The Mixed Remixed Festival will take place at the Japanese American National Museum in downtown Los Angeles (100 N. Central Avenue), June 14, 2014. The Festival celebrates stories of the Mixed experience and stories of multiracial Americans, the fastest…
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Complicating Race or Reproducing Whiteness? Heidi Durrow and The Girl Who Fell From the Sky Gino Michael Pellegrini: Education, Race, Multiraciality, Class & Solidarity 2014-04-13 Gino Michael Pellegrini, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California [This is an excerpt from a paper (currently being revised) that I presented last month at the…