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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The Lazy Storytelling of ‘Black or White’: Love and Justice Are Not Colorblind Christ and Pop Culture (CAPC) 2015-02-11 D. L. Mayfield I was at a writing retreat once where a bunch of us gathered together to talk about how to write well about social justice issues in our world. A young singer-songwriter with a…
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Dear Hollywood: Let’s Stop Making Movies Like “Black or White” Forbes 2015-01-30 Rebecca Theodore Halfway through the family drama “Black Or White,” Jeremiah Jeffers (Anthony Mackie) an Ivy-League educated lawyer, chastises his drug addict nephew Reggie (Andre Holland) in the midst of helping him regain custody of his daughter by asking, “Why do you have…
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Review: Nuance-Deprived “Race” Movie ‘Black or White’ is Actually About White Frustration (Opens Friday) Shadow and Act: On Cinema Of The African Diaspora 2015-01-27 Zeba Blay “Black or White” opens nationwide this Friday, January 30, via Relativity… Is it any wonder that a movie as lazily titled as “Black or White” fails to actually tackle…
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Kevin Costner Hopes His New Movie Redefines How People Think About Race The Huffington Post 2015-01-22 Sasha Bronner, Los Angeles Editor Kevin Costner, who just turned 60 earlier this week, can do a lot of things. “I can make a love story. I can make the American baseball movie. I can make the political thriller,…