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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Mark Duggan’s family lead call for a public inquiry into UK policing The Guardian 2015-06-07 Damien Gayle, Live Desk Reporter Carole Duggan, Duggan’s aunt, said her family had ‘ample evidence’ that police had misled an inquest into his death. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/the Guardian Campaigners say there are deep problems with Operation Trident, which investigates gun…
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Why Media Representation Matters To Biracial And Multiracial People Blue Nation Review 2015-06-04 John Paul Brammer, Identity Editor “So, you’re sort of nothing then.” I’ve only heard this once. Someone asked me what my race was because they were curious. I explained to them that I was mixed, that I had both indigenous and European…
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Racism under a Friendly Guise Joy Huang Stoffers: Writer and Novelist Saturday, 2015-05-09 Joy Huang Stoffers racism, n. A belief that one’s own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one’s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial…
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‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2015-06-01 Baz Dreisinger, Associate Professor of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” Abraham Lincoln declared in his 1858 speech presaging the Civil War. Such a house sits at the heart…
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Review: Mat Johnson’s ‘Loving Day’ Takes a Satirical Slant on Racial Identities The New York Times 2015-05-26 Dwight Garner, Senior writer and book critic Mat Johnson’s new novel, “Loving Day,” takes its title from an unofficial holiday, one his narrator likens to “Mulatto Christmas.” It’s the observance of the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v.…
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A Qualitative Examination of Multiracial Students’ Coping Responses to Experiences with Prejudice and Discrimination in College Journal of College Student Development Volume 56, Number 4, May 2015 pages 331-348 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2015.0041 Samuel D. Museus, Associate Professor of Higher Education Morgridge College of Education University of Denver Susan A. Lambe Sariñana, Clinical Psychologist Cambridge, Massachusetts Tasha…
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Crowe’s ‘whitewashing’ sparks criticism from advocates BBC News 2015-06-07 Elena Boffetta, BBC Washington Hollywood’s reliance on bankable – and often white – actors has led to another round of sharp criticism of filmmakers for “whitewashing” roles where race and ethnicity play a part. In Aloha, Cameron Crowe’s latest film, Emma Stone, a American actress with…
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) 2002 Richard Wormser, Series producer, Co-writer Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, “Jim Crow” came to personify the system of government-sanctioned…
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Caution and Skepticism About Univision-TheRoot Merger All Digitocracy 2015-06-03 Jillian Báez, Assistant Professor of Media Culture College of Staten Island, City University of New York TV Network’s history of racism and colorism may not bode well for website formerly owned by The Washington Post Company Two weeks ago Spanish-language television giant Univision announced its acquisition…
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The beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself BBC News 2015-06-04 Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, Tokyo Correspondent At first sight even I am a little confused by Ariana Miyamoto. She is tall and strikingly beautiful. But the first thing that pops in to my head when I meet the newly crowned Miss Universe Japan is that…