Mixed Race, Mixed Messages: The Growing Identity Crisis of Multiracial Americans in an Increasingly Racially Divided Country

In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and and Steve Majors, author of A Multiracial Experience: One Man’s Search for Race, Identity and Family, they discuss how the growing number of Americans who identify as multiracial are navigating their experiences of living in a society that is increasingly fractured along persistent, rigid racial lines. 

 
Promo Image for a seminar entitled, "Losing My Religion: How Organized Religion Continues to Control and Shape Black Women’s Identity" with headshots of the two speakers, Kadian Pow and Chris McAuley

Losing My Religion: How Organized Religion Continues to Control and Shape Black Women’s Identity

In this conversation between Chris McAuley, Black Studies Collection Editor at Lived Places Publishing and Dr. Kadian Pow, author of Stories of Black Female Identity in the Making: Queering the Love in Blackness, they discuss how religious institutions have maintained their power to shape and control Black women’s identities, despite a statistical decline in church attendance.  

 
A collection of individual type forms – small metal stamps of individual letters in different fonts and sizes that would be used in an old-fashioned printing press.

How a Book is Made

How does a book go from a bunch of Word documents to a printed and bound volume? The LPP team outline the stages of the book production process.

 
A red-washed background of masked children in a classroom, with the classroom door superimposed over it. The classroom door has hand-coloured children’s artwork decorating it, which reads “Amazing things happen here!”.

Ending Educational Inequities

The COVID-19 pandemic reproduced forms of educational exclusions by reiterating a “grammar of schooling”, yet it also offered an opportunity for teaching professionals to use their creativity and brilliance to rewrite it. Pushing back on educational inequities, these stories offer hope of more just and inclusive classrooms now and in the future.  

 

Job Opportunity: Marketing and Sales Internship (Paid)

Lived Places Publishing is looking for a digital marketing and sales outreach intern. This is a great opportunity to be a part of a mission-based organization and learn marketing and sales skills at the same time. This is a paid internship of 10 hours per week; 100% remote.

 
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