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: Jay Smooth
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Jay Smooth: The Ill Doctrine, Underground Railroad & Disenfranchised cheese puffs The Katie Halper Show 2016-01-20 Katie Halper, Host On our first episode of the Live Katie Halper Show I front of an audience we talk to Jay Smooth, founder and host of The Underground Railroad and of the Ill Doctrine video series. His videos…
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Why It Was Easy for Rachel Dolezal to Pass as Black Pacific Standard 2015-06-15 Lisa Wade, Associate Professor of Sociology Occidental College, Los Angeles, California Race is more social than biological. Source: (1)ne Drop Project Earlier this year a CBS commentator in a panel with Jay Smooth embarrassingly revealed that she thought he was white…
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Vulnerability as Empowerment in the Classroom Education Week 2015-09-09 Christina Torres, Middle and high school English and Drama Teacher University Laboratory School, Honolulu, Hawaii It’s back-to-school time for many students and teachers this week. For many, it means that 20 to 120 new faces enter our classrooms and our lives. Jessica, a fifth-grade teacher in…
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My father is black. My mother is white. I self-identify as black and as mixed and I don’t relate to those as mutually exclusive. I also try to be mindful and try to have a certain humility about how my experience differs from most other black people; about how I have certain types of residual white privilege which…
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‘I’m actually black’: Awkwardness ensues when journalist calls radio host Jay Smooth white Raw Story 2015-03-18 David Ferguson In one of the most cringe-worthy moments of television you will ever see, on Tuesday night’s All In with Chris Hayes, activist Nancy Giles of CBS Sunday Morning accused hip hop critic and cultural commentator Jay Smooth…
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How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist Ill Doctrine 2008-07-21 Jay Smooth You gotta use some strategy. See more of this discussion here.