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: The Guardian
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Merle Oberon, a pick for best actress in 1936, was born in Bombay and spent her career passing for white
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With my father’s death I lost the link to my Jamaican lineage, and I needed to address that. It is vital to embrace all sides of yourself
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After the murder of George Floyd, and a renewed energy around the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020, [Adwoa] Aboah found her conversations on her Gurls Talk podcast getting “a lot deeper. Everyone had so much to say, and everyone was going through such personal experiences, growth and sadness.” It also led to a second…
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She is one of the world’s most in-demand models, but it wasn’t always this way. As she gets her big acting break in “Top Boy,” she explains how she got through a tumultuous decade
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This debut novel is a surefooted, art-filled and wholly 21st-century take on bloodsucking
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Lewis Hamilton to change name to include mother Carmen’s surname
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Historians argue Roper’s story could have helped end US slavery earlier but supporters turned on him