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: Malcolm Gladwell
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Mr. Gladwell, known aesthetically for his finger-in-the-light-socket hair and otherwise as a longtime writer for The New Yorker and a best-selling author many times over, was recording his popular podcast, “Revisionist History.”
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Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-theorized endowment, why early childhood intervention is overrated, long-distance running, and Malcolm’s happy risk-averse career going from one “fur-lined rat hole to the next.”
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Race Radiolab Season 5, Episode 3, April 2014 Shea Walsh This hour of Radiolab, a look at race. When the human genome was first fully mapped in 2000, Bill Clinton, Craig Venter, and Francis Collins took the stage and pronounced that “The concept of race has no genetic or scientific basis.” Great words spoken with…
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The 10 Best Black Books of 2013 (Non-Fiction) The AFRO 2013-12-24 Kam Williams, Special to the AFRO The 10 Best Black Books of 2013 (Non-Fiction) (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race Edited by Yaba Blay, Ph.D. with photography by Noelle Theard Ebony & Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities by…
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When do I use “we”? In a room full of people I do not know, I always search out the ones who fall in the middle, like me, out of some irrational ideal that we belong together. I worry that this is the wrong thing for the child of a mixed marriage to feel. My…
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Lost in the Middle: Growing up Across Racial & Cultural Divides The Washington Post 1998-05-17 Malcolm Gladwell His parents conqured racial difference with dignity and relative ease. But race became a more complicated question for their son. One summer Saturday, when I was growing up, my father piled my brothers and me into the family…
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Half + Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural Pantheon an imprint of Random House 1998-06-09 288 pages ISBN: 978-0-375-70011-8 (0-375-70011-0) Edited by Claudine C. O’Hearn As we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one’s identity or…