Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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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An Existential Gaze at Multiracial Self-Concept: Implications for Psychotherapy Journal of Humanistic Psychology Volume 50, Number 3 (July 2010) DOI: 10.1177/0022167810365909 Matthew J. Taylor, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis John T. Nanney Department of Psychology University of Missouri, St. Louis Multiracial self-concept is conceptualized using an existential framework. First, the authors…
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Real Americans [Book Review] The Virginia Quarterly Review Spring 2009 pages 206-210 Oscar Villalon What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America, by Ariela J. Gross. Harvard University Press, October 2008. As a child, there were the Americans, and then there was us. Americans weren’t that plentiful in my grandmother’s neighborhood.…
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Never a Neutral State: American Race Relations and Government Power Cato Journal Volume 29, Number 3 (Fall 2009) Pages 417-453 Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow and Managing Editor, Cato Unbound Cato Institute Economics tells us that racial discrimination is expensive. Yet social psychology suggests that humans nonetheless tend to mistrust those whom they identify as outsiders.…