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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Emil Guillermo: Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof, and Father’s Day Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund 2015-06-20 Emil Guillermo Rachel Dolezal nearly wrecked everyone’s Father’s Day. You don’t often see a daughter outed so publicly by her white father for passing as an African American, but I guess post-racial filial love isn’t necessarily unconditional. I…
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‘Lightskin Guys Be Like…’ BlogbyBilal: Living in NW London my whole life until I was whisked away by magic pumpkin chariot into Cambridge for the fairy tale years of my life – my ramblings of my tour of the North. 2015-06-18 Bilal Harry Khan “Lightskin boys be so moist” “Those guys are bare in their…
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Census considers new approach to asking about race – by not using the term at all Pew Research Center 2015-06-18 D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer/Editor Possible 2020 census race/Hispanic question for online respondents, who would click to the next screen to choose more detailed sub-categories such as “Cuban” or “Chinese.” Credit: U.S. Census Bureau The Census…
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Rachel Dolezal’s Story Sparks Questions About ‘How People Experience Race’ All Things Considered National Public Radio 2015-06-16 Audie Cornish, Host Khadijah White, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Media Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Allyson Hobbs, Assistant Professor of History Stanford University NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Rutgers University professor Khadijah White and…
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As Rachel Dolezal Breaks Silence, a Roundtable Discussion on Race, Appropriation and Identity Democracy Now: A Daily Independent Global News Hour Wednesday, 2015-06-17 Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer Juan González, Co-Host Stacey Patton, Senior Enterprise Reporter The Chronicle of Higher Education Lacey Schwartz, Chief Executive Officer Truth Aid (also Producer/director of the documentary film…
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There is a lesson here for us, for we who are white and care deeply about racial equity, justice and liberation, and the lesson is this: authentic antiracist white identity is what we must cultivate. We cannot shed our skin, nor our privileges like an outdated overcoat. They are not accessories to be donned or…