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: Jelani Cobb
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The pervasive media and public interest in the Dolezal story confirms the ongoing fascination with racial passing within and beyond the United States, a popular interest that has its counterpart in the proliferation of academic studies of the subject that have been published in the past twenty years. The scholarly attention paid to racial passing…
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As Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence, a Roundtable Discussion on Race, Appropriation and Identity Democracy Now: A Daily Independent Global News Hour Wednesday, 2015-06-17 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer Juan González, Co-Host Stacey Patton, Senior Enterprise Reporter The Chronicle of Higher Education Lacey Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer Truth Aid (also Producer/director of the documentary film…
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Rachel Dolezal is a white woman who has for some years identified as black. She wasn’t lying about who she is. She was lying about a lie.