Category: Articles

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • ‘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.…

  • Mestizaje and Public Opinion in Latin America Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 130-152 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0045 Edward Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Denia Garcia Department of Sociology Princeton University Latin American elites authored and disseminated ideologies of mestizaje or race mixture, but does the general population value them today? Using the…

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Waking from Mixed Dreams Mixed Dreams: towards a radical multiracial/ethnic movement 2015-02-26 Nicole Asong Nfonoyim-Hara Let me begin, if I may, by introducing this rather belated post with the powerful words of some scholars, poets, writers, and activists to set our scene: “American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than…

  • Beautiful Aliens. Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-26 Natalie Armitage “What beautiful daughters you have!” It happens a lot. It is a compliment, of course it is. I have green eyes, that are pretty big, and light brown skin. My sister, has the richest auburn hair,…

  • 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…