Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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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Category: Articles
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Creole Renegades: Rhetoric of Betrayal and Guilt in the Caribbean Diaspora by Bénédicte Boisseron (review) The Americas Volume 72, Number 4, October 2015 pages 661-664 John Patrick Walsh, Assistant Professor of French University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania In this outstanding book, Bénédicte Boisseron challenges received ideas on Caribbean literature and critical paradigms that have sedimented…
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Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children The Seattle Globalist 2015-12-09 Sharon H. Chang The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race. Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race,…
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Mixed race identity and counselling Therapy Today Volume 26, Issue 10 (December 2015) pages 16-20 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Nicola Codner describes her own identity as a mixed race woman and calls on counsellors to learn more about the psychosocial needs of our third largest ethnic minority group I felt compelled to submit…
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Writing Reconstruction: Racial Fluidity and National Reunion in A Romance of the Republic ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance Volume 61, Number 4, 2015 (No. 241 O.S.) pages 631-666 DOI: 10.1353/esq.2015.0017 Lori Robison, Associate Professor of English University of North Dakota Speaking to a nation traumatized by the divisive war and anxious to find…
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The link between “tourism” and “settler colonialism” in Hawai’i Matador Network 2015-07-29 Bani Amor Maile Arvin is a Native Hawaiian feminist scholar who writes about Native feminist theories, settler colonialism, decolonization, and race and science in Hawai‘i and the broader Pacific. She is currently a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Ethnic Studies at…
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Analogizing Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage Philosophy and Rhetoric Volume 48, Number 4, 2015 pages 561-582 Isaac West, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee “Like race” analogies have been critiqued from various perspectives, and this article enters that conversation to engage those criticisms from a rhetorical perspective. In short, this article makes a…
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Sock and Buskin’s new production combines history and mysticism The Brown Daily Herald Providence, Rhode Island 2015-11-16 Jennifer Shook, Staff Writer ‘The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry’ examines journey of Black Seminoles to Oklahoma In Sock and Buskin’s newest production “The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry,” legend and history come together to present…
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I’ve been reading a new book by Sharon H. Chang called “Raising Mixed Race.” You might remember Sharon, a Seattle-based writer and scholar, from her guest post A Multiracial Asian Mom Wonders How Her Son Will See Himself (Routledge 2015). With chapter titles that are analogies to home construction (Foundation, Framing, Wiring, etc.), the book…
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Third film festival La Voz News: The voice of De Anza College since 1967 Cupertino, California 2015-10-22 Bojana Cvijic, Staff Writer De Anza students saw the Lacey Schwartz’s film “Little White Lie” and had a discussion about race and identity issues during the Third Film Festival on Oct. 15 at Euphrat Museum. Members of the…