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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Author: Steven
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Mixed Kids Aren’t Going to Save the World Leah and Black History Month 2016-02-16 Leah Anneli I have a Black father and a white mother. I’m mixed. I’m not a unicorn. I think there are some misconceptions about who mixed race people are and what function we serve in society. Let’s unpack those. We’re not…
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The True Story of the ‘Free State of Jones’ The Smithsonian Magazine March 2016 Richard Grant; Photographs by William Widmer A new Hollywood movie looks at the tale of the Mississippi farmer who led a revolt against the Confederacy With two rat terriers trotting at his heels, and a long wooden staff in his hand,…
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I Feel Guilty for Being Able to ‘Pass’ as a Person of Color Kveller 2016-02-18 Elana Rabinowitz Brooklyn, New York He called me negra. Not mami or guapa, but what translates to “black woman.” I wasn’t offended. More confused. The thing is, I’m really just a white Jewish girl from Brooklyn. There, I said it.…
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The Struggles Of Being Biracial Odyssey 2016-02-08 Tamera Hyatte “What are you?” I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked this question and the same response I like to give is “I’m human.” I know it strikes people’s curiosity that I am mixed with black and white, having a white father and…
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#LookingForMezclas Hugo Amsellem Cali, Colombia 2016-02-11 Exploring the challenges of mingling identities with photos & stories of cool people I meet around the streets of the cities that I visit during my year-long travel… For more information, click here.
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Participants Needed for Study on the Concept of Bi-Racial Ethnic Belongingness Saint Mary’s University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2016-02-23 Jasmine Moreash The need to belong is a fundamental aspect of life. For bi-racial individuals, ethnic belongingness can be more complicated compared to a monoracial individual. Belongingness contributes to self-esteem and for bi-racial individuals their perceived…
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DNA ancestry tests branded ‘meaningless’ The Telegraph 2013-03-07 Nick Collins, Science Correspondent Customers are being charged up to £300 to learn whether they have links to famous people or societies despite the fact many of the tests are not backed up by scientific evidence, experts said. The amount of DNA any individual inherits from relatives…
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Filmmakers Behind ‘Invisible Roots’ on Finding Afro-Mexicans Living in Southern California Remezcla 2016-02-16 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California Photo: NOTIMEX/JAVIER LIRA OTERO Almost a year before the Mexican government officially acknowledged Afro-Mexicans as a distinct racial and ethnic group, directors Tiffany Walton and Lizz Mullis first began working on their film, Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans of…