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  • Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA

    Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA The 2026 CMRSA Conference Programming Committee Critical Mixed Race Studies Association 2025-06-12 Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) is a biennial conference, field of study, and scholarly and activist community. The CMRS conference draws over 500 multiracial scholars, artists, students, activists, clinicians, community organizations and…

  • In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own

    The Hollywood pitch goes something like this: Put racially ambiguous Black people in the public eye — Kamala, Meghan, Barack. Have them declare themselves Black. Count down the minutes before the world erupts into outrage, distress and suspicion. People scream their confusion and doubt, accusing the figures of lying about who they really are. It…

  • On Turning Black

    On Turning Black The New York Times 2024-08-01 Esau McCaulley, Contributing Opinion Writer Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times During his interview before the National Association of Black Journalists this week, Donald Trump was asked if he would call upon his fellow Republicans to refrain from labeling Vice President…

  • Should Harris Talk Much About Her Racial Identity? Many Voters Say No.

    Even as Trump plays up racial divisions, many Americans said they would rather not dwell on race or identity. “We can all see that you’re Black.”

  • The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American

    The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American The New York Times 2024-07-28 Amy Qin Kamala Harris spoke during the virtual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Unity Summit in 2021. Erin Scott for The New York Times Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she…

  • Multiracial Generations: (Mis)Identification & Socialization Experiences of Interminority Multiracials and Half-White Multiracials

    We found that phenotypically ambiguous Multiracials were the most likely to experience misidentification. Interminority Multiracials were more likely to be misperceived as a higher-status ethnoracial group and half-White Multiracials were more likely to be misperceived as a lower-status ethnoracial group. Moreover, phenotypically ambiguous Multiracials reported a marginally higher proportion of non-coracial friends. Furthermore, interminority Multiracials…

  • Excerpts from The Space Between by Herb Harris

    This racial ambiguity reflects many generations of mixed heritage that go back to the beginning of the slave trade. My ancestors were both the enslaved and the enslavers who sexually exploited them. I have many white ancestors, but their identities are almost entirely unknown. These perpetrators and their victims still live inside me, where their…

  • Populations, individuals, and biological race

    Populations, individuals, and biological race Biology and Philosophy Volume 39, article number 10, (2024) 24 pages DOI: 10.1007/s10539-024-09946-0 M.A. Diamond-Hunter, Teaching Associate Department of History and Philosophy of Science Research Associate, Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom In this paper, I plan to show that the use of a specific population concept—Millstein’s…

  • An American Puzzle: Fitting Race in a Box

    Census categories for race and ethnicity have shaped how the nation sees itself. Here’s how they have changed over the last 230 years.

  • New CDG-produced Video tells the history of the Winton Triangle’s Greatest Institution

    C.S. Brown Auditorium needs restoration work and a new video production has come to its aid. We hope this effort will help raise the resources needed for the restoration.