Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Category: Articles
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Is Japan becoming more welcoming to mixed-race people?
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By Repackaging the Myths of the Tragic Octoroon and the Self-Made Woman, Lulu White Crafted a Persona That Haunts Beyoncé’s “Formation”
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We are not only personal identities. We represent so much more. And in this way, each of us is quite powerful and agents of change, whether we feel responsible to this or not. And in this way, the ignorance we may carry, will also play its role in the forming of culture, little by little,…
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State and federal programs aim to ensure minority-owned businesses can compete for government contracts after generations of institutional discrimination. A Lynnwood man long identified as white is using DNA ethnicity estimates to claim minority status.
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Contrary to popular expectations, multiracialism has not alleviated racism. Deviations from the hundred-percent whiteness (a racial myth) continue to inform social constructions of race, racial awareness, discrimination, and the application of civil rights laws.
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Former Time journalist Lisa Takeuchi Cullen will write ”Ohana,’ based on Kiana Davenport’s 1994 novel ‘Shark Dialogues.’