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: Michele Elam
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Crossing old boundaries to create new identities
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Michele Elam: “The Souls of Mixed Folk” (NBAAS, 31/10/12) YouTube Race & Ethnicity Archive 2016-03-19 “What are you?” The question can often comes out of nowhere One can be going about her quotidian activities, or she might have just finished a meeting at work. “What are you?” The question is disorienting for most, but for…
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One Big Mixed Race Classroom: New Models for Digital, Transnational, and Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogy
One Big Mixed Race Classroom: New Models for Digital, Transnational, and Cross-Disciplinary Pedagogy Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association Beyond the Logic of Debt, Toward an Ethics of Collective Dissent 2013-11-21 through 2013-11-24 Washington Hilton 1919 Connecticut Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Washington Hilton, Columbia Hall 9 (T) Friday, 2013-11-22, 12:00-13:45 EST (Local Time) CHAIR:…
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Replacing calls for social justice or racial equity, the most often repeated goal of “mixed race rights” is merely to “name all the parts of myself.” The rhetorical or graphic display of the family tree (almost de rigueur in the growing genre of mixed race narratives) participates in a racial gaze that can interrupt political…
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The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium [Ibrahim Review] Modern Language Quarterly Volume 74, Number 4, December 2013 page 566 DOI: 10.1215/00267929-2153679 Habiba Ibrahim, Associate Professor of English University of Washington The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics, and Aesthetics in the New Millennium. By Elam Michele. Stanford, CA:…
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Clearly Invisible Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity by Marcia Alesan Dawkins, and: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium by Michele Elam (review) Philip Roth Studies Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2013 pages 99-103 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2013.0024 Donavan L. Ramon Rutgers University Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clearly Invisible:…
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“The Souls of Mixed Folk” examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical.