{"id":5750,"date":"2010-03-09T04:47:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T04:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?page_id=5750"},"modified":"2018-08-23T02:28:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T02:28:55","slug":"priase-for-mixed-race-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?page_id=5750","title":{"rendered":"Praise for Mixed Race Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>&#8220;First of all, I just want to say how brilliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mixedracestudies.org<\/a> is. It offers such a great wealth of scholarly work, which has been incredibly helpful for someone like me who has just started out delving into the area.&#8221; (<strong>2018-08-20<\/strong>), M.A. Student, London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your website. It has been a useful resource and I&#8217;ve appreciated the regular updates. I&#8217;m still going through many interesting articles! Thank you for your labour of love, and I hope to be able to contribute to your website some time in the near future.&#8221; (<strong>2018-01-06<\/strong>), Ph.D. Candidate, London, United Kingdom<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am a big fan of your website\/blog. It\u2019s really informative!&#8221; (<strong>2015-11-10<\/strong>) Associate Professor, Barcelona, Spain.<\/li>\n<li>I just accepted an invitation to be participatant on the [conference] programming committee&#8230; &#8230;it was the information about my work provided on your website that gave her the idea to reach out to me. Again, thanks for getting the word out about my work.\u00a0 (<strong>2015-09-10<\/strong>). Professor.<\/li>\n<li>All this kind attention you\u2019re paying to my silly little book on your site warms my heart. \u00a0(<strong>2015-09-03<\/strong>). Professor and Novelist, Kentucky, U.S.A.<\/li>\n<li>I greatly appreciate your website: http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/&#8230; &#8230;Keep up all your fantastic work with the website. (<strong>2014-10-04<\/strong>). Professor, Sweden.<\/li>\n<li>And congratulations on your 5-year anniversary! That&#8217;s remarkable, and proof of how valuable and important your website continues to be. I&#8217;ve seen no others like it. (<strong>2014-05-25<\/strong>). Administrator\/Author, Neumann University.<\/li>\n<li>Your website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracesudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.mixedracestudies.org<\/a> has been incredibly useful&#8230; (<strong>2014-05-14<\/strong>). Third-year Film and TV student, University of York .<\/li>\n<li>Just discovered your site today &#8212; great stuff. keep it up. (<strong>2014-01-06<\/strong>). Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<li>Just a note of thanks, and keep up the good work on the site. I&#8217;m doing a Master of Arts on mixed race in Fiji\u2014and find your site as really good resource. (<strong>2013-12-17<\/strong>). Masters student.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m writing to first thank you for mixedracestudies.org. It has been an incredible resource for me during my literature review process. (<strong>2013-11-18<\/strong>). Ph.D. student, Berkeley, California.<\/li>\n<li>A few months back you posted a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=27576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Virginia blog that related the story of Jane Webb<\/a>, a mixed-race woman from Virginia who fought colonial authorities for her family&#8217;s freedom.\u00a0 Just wanted to thank you for sharing this with your readers as she was one of my ancestors.\u00a0 I knew the story but had never seen the some of the original court documents backing it up.\u00a0 I was so pleasantly surprised.\u00a0 Best of the luck with your site. Keep up the good work! (<strong>2013-10-09<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>I use your excellent database every day! <strong>(2013-09-02<\/strong>) Reader, <em>University of Kent.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Greetings! I\u2019m an admirer of your (heroic) efforts with Mixed Race Studies. Such a comprehensive database of information, perspectives, and resources! (<strong>2013-05-23<\/strong>) Author, <em>Philadelphia<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>[I]\u00a0am an avid user of your Mixed Race studies website, which is such an amazing resource. It has been such a huge source of inspiration for me with my thesis (<strong>2013-05-22<\/strong>) Masters Student, <em>University of Leicester<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>First of all I want to extend a massive thank-you for the Mixed Race Studies website. I am currently completing my doctoral thesis on what influences identification as &#8216;mixed-race&#8217; amongst subjects of African and European ancestry, and your site is just the most incredible resource! I have discovered so much on there, it is probably the singularly most valuable tool in my work. (<strong>2013-03-04<\/strong>) Ph.D. Student, <em>Goldsmiths College of London<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve appreciated many of the things I&#8217;ve read on your site and the work that you&#8217;ve put into it. (<strong>2012-10-15<\/strong>) <em>Ph.D. Student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks for all your incredible work in bringing information and knowledge to the public. It&#8217;s truly amazing the contribution you are making. (<strong>2012-09-29<\/strong>) <em>Professor, Stanford University<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;I am a prospective\u00a0 American History Ph.D. candidate. I stumbled upon your site while looking for scholarly texts and articles on the topic of mixed race studies\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passing<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=9004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quadroon Balls<\/a>\/\u201cFancy\u201d Maids etc,. Additionally, I utilized your site to locate potential advisors with whom I share like interests. All in all, the information you\u2019ve provided is not only extensive, but well organized. (<strong>2012-09-17<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/@mixed_race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mixed_race<\/a> [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.MixedRaceStudies.org<\/a>] yes the site and become my &#8216;bible&#8217;. It&#8217;s an integral part of my research. Blogger (<strong>2012-07-27<\/strong>).<\/li>\n<li>Thank you for all your hard work on the website, which is a wonderful resource for everyone! (<strong>2012-06-25<\/strong>) <em>Professor, University of Southern California<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mixedracestudies.org<\/a> has been central to my classes, by the way. Do not ever stop!!! (<strong>2012-03-16<\/strong>) <em>Professor, Stanford University<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;Well, I wanted to thank you for all the work you&#8217;ve been doing. As I&#8217;m embarking on my own dissertation work, your website has been such an amazing resource (and time saver!). So thank you for all that you&#8217;ve been doing! (<strong>2012-01-30<\/strong>) <em>Chair of a College Association<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I am a huge fan of your work around mixed race issues, including your website. I\u2019m so grateful for the exposure my work gets on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MixedRaceStudies.org<\/a><\/em>. It\u2019s not often our work is appreciated in our own disciplines. Just a note letting you know how much your work is appreciated in our community. [Hand-written note] (<strong>2012-01-20<\/strong>) <em>Professor, Arizona State University<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;your research skills and ability to put all this together deserves an award. It is quite brilliant what you do. (<strong>2011-10-23<\/strong>) <em>Professor, Lehman College, CUNY<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>For anyone who is interested in reading more scholarly works on critical race and critical multiracial theory, please check out my friend Steven F. Riley&#8217;s website, which is a gold mine of information, and was a really big help to me in getting my dissertation completed. (<strong>2011-10-09<\/strong>) Clinical Psychologist.<\/li>\n<li>Also, I just added a link in my blogs section to Steven F. Riley\u2019s <em>Mixed Race Studies<\/em> blog. I have yet to fully explore it but it looks like a great resource. (<strong>2011-06-29<\/strong>) Blogger.<\/li>\n<li>Your site is the the only blog I read. (<strong>2011-06-11<\/strong>) <em>Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I wanted to commend you on your site. I&#8217;ve just found it and seen the wealth of information! (<strong>2011-05-29<\/strong>) Professor, Georgetown University.<\/li>\n<li>Your site is terrific! I wish I had known about it when I was writing my piece. (<strong>2011-03-30<\/strong>) <em>Professor<\/em>, Johns Hopkins University.<\/li>\n<li>The mixed-race studies website is simply wonderful! It is a great aid to the correction of (a) bad social practices associated with racial differentiation, and (b) mistaken biological and social science. (<strong>2011-03-30<\/strong>) <em>Professor Emeritus, University of Bristol<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks for sharing your work&#8230; it&#8217;s very impressive man&#8230; well done. (<strong>2011-03-18<\/strong>) <em>Professor, Miami University<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Dear Mr. Riley, It took me seven years to find my great great grandmother, F. T.. In that initial bit of euphoria, I failed to notice the little \u201cm\u201d [\u201c<em>m<\/em>ulatto\u201d] beside her name. It never occurred to me that in addition to my German Irish roots, I might also be the product of a mixed race ancestral line. It. Never. Occurred. To. Me.Once I got over the initial shock, (because It. Never. Occurred. To. Me.) I began to do research \u2013 a lot of research. I\u2019m still researching.What I love about your website is that:\n<ol>\n<li>It\u2019s searchable.<\/li>\n<li>You employ great tags.<\/li>\n<li>It exists!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I know your aim was for a scholarly audience, but for me, someone interested in augmenting my family history, it has turned into a valuable resource.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to say thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nT.S. <strong>(2011-02-13<\/strong>) <em>Blogger<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I also appreciate you promoting my research on your website, which I am a fan of, and have recommended it to my family, friends and colleagues. (<strong>2010-12-24<\/strong>) <em>Professor, University of Arizona<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>And thanks again for your ongoing work maintaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MixedRaceStuides.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>MixedRaceStudies.com<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s a vital resource. (<strong>2010-12-20<\/strong>) <em>Professor, University of California, Irvine<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Thanks again, for your great website (I shared the link with my \u201cWomen of Color in Academia\u201d class). (<strong>2010-10-15<\/strong>) <em>Graduate Student, Seattle, Washington<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Hi Steven, I absolutely love your blog, it&#8217;s actually a lifeline for me personally and professionally. I&#8217;m mixed white and Arab and the first American in my family. I work in public health on health disparities that affect communities of color, as well as write about issues of mixed identity and being a first generation American. (<strong>2010-10-06<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been reading your website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MixedRaceStudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mixed Race Studies<\/em><\/a>, and have been making a list of books to read that have been featured on your site. Thank you for providing this resource. (<strong>2010-10-06<\/strong>) <em>Poet, United Kingdom<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I am a grad student doing research on mixed race identity, and I just want you to know that I am a fan of your site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MixedRaceStudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mixed Race Studies<\/em><\/a>. (<strong>2010-10-01<\/strong>) <em>Graduate Student, University of Californa, Santa Barbara<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been following your blog all year and think what you&#8217;ve done is truly amazing and a significant contribution to mixed race studies and the multiracial community at large. So, thanks! (<strong>2010-09-29<\/strong>) <em>Blogger<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Your site is an awesome resource&#8230; (<strong>2010-09-03<\/strong>) <em>Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I recently became aware of your website through an announcement made by [a University of Vermont professor] to a listserv I\u2019m on. I think it\u2019s great and very helpful for my own personal and scholarly interests. I\u2019m a self-identified mixed race PhD student at UCLA, hoping to study mixed race issues in higher education&#8230; Thanks for your consideration and keep up the great work! (<strong>2010-08-28<\/strong>) <em>Graduate Student<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I came across your website today, and I was very impressed &#8211; I am doing a PhD at the National University of Singapore looking at issues of mixed race in Singapore and New Zealand, and your website is a great resource. (<strong>2010-08-19<\/strong>) <em>Graduate Student<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>I also wanted to tell you I think that your website is fabulous. I want to commend you for taking the time to provide such a thoughtful, sophisticated resource for all of us who care about critical mixed race studies. I will pass it on to my students and have already enthusiastically shared this resource with other professors in the field. Thanks for your fantastic work! (<strong>2010-08-10<\/strong>)<em> Professor, University of Toronto<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Thank you for this&#8230; and for having a site dedicated to the scholarly engagements with this important topic (so rare!) (<strong>2010-07-06<\/strong>) <em>Professor, Stanford University<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8230;I don&#8217;t know if you know this&#8230; but <a href=\"mailto:steven@stevenriley.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Riley<\/a> here has one of the most outstanding, sophisticated websites on the internet. If you want a resource on anything that\u2019s new or that has ever been on this topic&#8230; &#8230;It&#8217;s a wonderful resource. I can\u2019t say enough good things about it. (<strong>2010-06-13<\/strong>) guest panelist at the <em>Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival<\/em> and <em>Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I stumbled upon this site a couple weeks ago and found it to be somewhat helpful, Steven Riley collects scholarly works about the interracial identity. There is a variety of information, and he developed the site aiming to reach out to non-scholarly people but it has become an excellent resource for any person looking to find resources about various aspects of the interracial identity. I have only gone through a few pages, and random articles google suggested on his site. It\u2019s really great&#8230; (<strong>2010-04-24<\/strong>), Blogger.<\/li>\n<li>I appreciate your mission and the collection of resources your blog provides. I will pass along the URL to my colleagues and students. (<strong>2010-04-17<\/strong>) <em>Professor, Temple University<\/em><\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ve been exploring your website and in the process have obtained great satisfaction. It\u2019s always a treat to learn new facts, acquire more knowledge of subjects dear to one\u2019s heart&#8230; Again, thanks so very much for your GREAT website, Steven. You are to be greatly commended for vastly aiding us all in understanding various and sundry racial paradigms. You\u2019ve provided a real service! (<strong>2010-03-28<\/strong>) <em>V. A., San Diego, California<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Actually, I love the website, particularly the content. It is amazing. You have put a lot of work into it. And, anyone who respects my work has already won me over&#8230;&#8221; (<strong>2010-03-05<\/strong>) <em>Professor, University of California at Santa Barbara<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I have recently visited <em>Mixed Race Studies<\/em> and am impressed in return. I will post a link to it on my blogroll in the next few days.&#8221; (<strong>2010-02-26<\/strong>), <em>Professor Emeritus, Texas State University<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I wanted to thank you for starting and managing your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MixedRaceStudies.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mixed Race Studies<\/em><\/a> site. It is much needed. I have already encountered many sources that I did not know about. I encourage you to keep up your great work.&#8221; (<strong>2010-02-01<\/strong>) <em>Professor, <em>Pierce College, Woodland Hills, California<\/em><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;You are doing great work.&#8221; (<strong>2010-01-28<\/strong>) <em>Professor, North Carolina Central University<\/em><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I am so glad to have found your blog!&#8221; (<strong>2009-11-24<\/strong>) <em>Professor, Syracuse University<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Your mixed-race-studies site is very thought-provoking and thorough! If I didn&#8217;t know better I would have thought you were a professor teaching courses on the topic. (<strong>2009-09-05<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;First of all, I just want to say how brilliant mixedracestudies.org is. 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