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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Tag: TaRessa Stovall
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Does this fight or fuel racism?
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Even as a child, I balked at the stereotype of the Tragic Mulatto.
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Mixed-race writers invited to share contribute to groundbreaking celebration of Mixed identity.
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Nabil Ayers’ memoir reflects on family, identity and his journey to connect with a Black father who was ‘really just DNA’
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Times change, and with them the ways in which some of us move through once-familiar spaces. Lately, I’ve been challenged with how to respond to the new dynamic of Mixed-Black folks being gatekept out of some Black spaces.
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Because She Can: The Unbearable Whiteness of Jessie The Crisis 2020-09-09 TaRessa Stovall I’m a mixed (Black, Jewish, Native American) boomer, very light-skinned and so racially ambiguous looking that most people question, assume and try to challenge my racial identity. My copper-toned Black father hated that I wouldn’t exploit my appearance to “be anything.” My…