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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Category: Articles
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Zélie Asava of Irish-Kenyan parentage with English citizenship, is a lecturer in film and media theory and national cinemas at Dundalk IT and University College Dublin. She explores mixed-raced identities and its representation in Irish, U.S. and French cinemas.
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Census categories for mixed race and mixed ethnicity: impacts on data collection and analysis in the US, UK and NZ Public Health Published online: 2015-02-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2014.12.017 S. A. Valles, Assistant Professor Lyman Briggs College and Department of Philosophy Michigan State University R. S. Bhopal, Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health;Honorary Consultant in…
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‘I Didn’t Want to Be a Black Man’ Ebony 2014-08-27 Ben O’Keefe A biracial man on why he came to accept his Black identity My name is Ben O’Keefe and I am a “Halfrican American.” It’s a term that one of my fellow mixed-race friends, Adriana, and I have affectionately come to define ourselves by.…
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Been a good while since I put pen to paper. Wait this is awkward, fingers to keyboard rather, 2015 and all that. In any case, I’ve been thinking for a while about something of paramount importance. Me.
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I Became So Exhausted With Proving My South Asian Identity That I Started to Ignore It xoJane 2015-02-24 Anjali Patel The rules of miscegenation were set long before I came along, and my self-determination to “be myself” was not going to change it. A couple of years ago, I was at a rooftop party in…
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The writer is White. Her husband is Black. And there are many people who feel entitled to accost the couple with unsolicited opinions about their biracial son.
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Baby Gammy and the Sexual Politics of Mixed Race Asians Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-02-25 Sharon H. Chang A couple years ago young Thai mother Pattaramon Chanbua agreed to be a surrogate for Australian couple David and Wendy Farnell. It was a disaster. Last week…