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
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- 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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A Tale of Two Seminole Counties Indian Voices August 2013 page 7 Phil Fixico Some coincidences can’t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both Florida’s and Oklahoma’s Seminole Counties. What does this date and these counties have in common. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born…
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Blacks and Native Americans have deep ties Our Weekly: Our Truth, Our Voice Los Angeles, California 2010-11-18 Manny Otiko, Our Weekly Contributor November is Native Heritage month There is an old joke in the Black community about women attributing long hair to having “Indian blood” in their family. But like all jokes, there is an…
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Phil Wilkes Fixico — a True Native Son L. A. Watts Times 2010-03-11 Darlene Donloe, Contributing Writer Phil Wilkes Fixico’s life is more dramatic than virtually any soap opera. It took him about 52 years to find out who he was after growing up in what he calls a “web of lies.” His intriguing story…
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This is a story of two hidden identities.