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  • Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference 2018: Resisting, Reclaiming, and Reimagining (Call for Papers)

    Resisting, Reclaiming, and Reimagining, the next Critical Mixed Race Studies conference seeks to highlight resistance against white supremacy around the globe, the reclamation of community, kinship, and identity within the mixed-race community, and the reimagining of racial difference.

  • Blackness Behind White Skin

    It is in this very moment I begin to panic. My mind starts to race at a 100mph and I begin to nervously look around as I see everyone sitting down, but all the black men standing tall. “Do I keep standing?

  • The fourth Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference celebrates the 50th anniversary of Loving v. Virginia

    LOS ANGELES, CA – The fourth Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, “Explorations in Trans (gender, gressions, migrations, racial) Fifty Years After Loving v. Virginia,” will bring together academics, activists, and artists from across the US and abroad to explore the latest developments in critical mixed race studies. The Conference will be held at The University…

  • Can We Talk

    Can We Talk Mixed Roots Stories 2016-11-02 Chelene Knight Please check one of the following boxes: Black White Asian Indigenous Métis Other In my younger days I remember filling out a job application and staring at that question about race for so long. Do I check the ‘Black” box? What the hell is “Other?” My…

  • Rebooting beyond the idea of Race

    Rebooting beyond the idea of Race Mixed Roots Stories 2016-07-06 Temu and Elisabeth Diaab “Remember how we always wanted to write a children’s book?” Elisabeth asked me one morning over coffee. “Let’s do it now, she said.” Our son had just moved into a college dorm, we were juggling two internet businesses, and even considering…

  • Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference

    Mixed Student Union Hosts Fourth Annual Heritage Conference Pacific Ties University of California, Los Angeles 2016-05-13 Ayesha Sheikh UCLA’s Mixed Student Union (MSU) hosted their fourth annual Mixed Heritage Conference on April 30 in the James West Alumni Center. The organization’s goal for hosting the conference on campus, according to the organization’s co-director Ariel Pezner,…

  • 2017 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Call for Papers

    2017 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Call for Papers University of Southern California Los Angeles, California 2017-02-24 through 2017-02-26 Explorations in Trans (gender, gressions, migrations, racial) Fifty Years After Loving v. Virginia Deadline: 2016-04-30 Notification: 2016-07-31 Presenters at the conference must be members. Registration/membership will be available in 2016. Details below. Subject Fields: We welcome submissions…

  • What Does my Body Mean?

    What Does my Body Mean? Mixed Roots Stories 2016-03-30 Carly Bates Carly Bates (Photo by: Bethany Brown) As a student of jazz at my university, I often occupy white male dominated spaces. I am the only woman of color (a black/white biracial woman) in a jazz history class, “Jazz Musicians as Composers,” a course that…

  • BOOK REVIEW – Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post Racial World

    BOOK REVIEW – Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post Racial World Mixed Roots Stories 2015-12-10 Chandra Crudup, PhD, MSW Sharon H. Chang’s inaugural book, Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post Racial World, lays out a blue print that outlines the history of white supremacy and how it has corrupted…

  • White Dads

    White Dads Mixed Roots Stories 2015-12-16 Sarah Gladstone Being brown and having a white dad means something, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. Right now, I’m working on an anthology project—“WHITE DADS: Stories and experiences told by people of color, fathered by white men.” I’ve been loving the ways people are taking this…