Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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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Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Its Correlates in Families of Black–White Biracial Children Family Relations Volume 63, Issue 2 (April 2014) pages 259–270 DOI: 10.1111/fare.12062 Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Alethea Rollins, Instructor, Child and Family Development University of Central Missouri Jessica P. Kaneakua University of Connecticut Child, family,…
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The Role of Identity Integration in Enhancing Creativity Among Mixed-Race Individuals The Journal of Creative Behavior Volume 48, Issue 3 (September 2014) pages 198–208 DOI: 10.1002/jocb.48 G. Tendayi Viki, Senior Lecturer in Psychology University of Kent, United Kingdom May Liang J. Williams University of Kent, United Kingdom Identity integration among bicultural individuals refers to the…
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Lobbying for a ‘MENA’ category on U.S. Census USA Today 2014-08-13 Teresa Wiltz, Pew/Stateline Staff Writer For many Americans, checking the right box on the U.S. Census form is a reflexive gesture, whether it’s marking “black,” “white,” “Hispanic,” “Asian,” “American Indian” — or all of the above. But for Americans of Middle Eastern and North…
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In a Novelist’s World, You Choose Your Race The New York Times 2014-08-11 Felicia R. Lee In the weak light of a February afternoon, Kelly Thorndike has a strange chance encounter in a Baltimore parking lot with Martin Lipkin, an old friend from high school. But time has brought a big change. The Martin that…
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Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the ‘Ethnic Plastic Surgery’ Minefield New York Magazine 2014-07-27 Maureen O’Connor “You’ve got some nice Caucasian features,” Dr. Edmund Kwan says, inspecting my face at his Upper East Side plastic-surgery practice, where the waiting room includes an ottoman larger than my kitchen table. “You’re half-Asian mixed with what?” Chinese…
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The De(con)struction of Black/White Binaries: Critiques of Passing in Charles Waddell Chesnutt’s “The Wife of His Youth” and Other Stories of the Color Line Callaloo Volume 37, Number 3, Summer 2014 pages 676-691 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2014.0106 Tanfer Emin Tunç, Professor of American Culture and Literature Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey When asked to elaborate on the “Negro…
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Northern Ireland’s most (un)wanted Media Diversified 2014-07-28 Jayne Olorunda Northern Ireland’s capital, Belfast has had many songs written about it. The lyrics of one Belfast song resonates in my ear as I think of the reputation the city now has. The lyrics of the song always stood out to me, but now they are more…
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Modern Diversity May Prompt US Census Bureau to Seek Better Classification of Hispanics’ Race Latin Post 2014-07-29 Nicole Akoukou Thompson Modernizing data and research methods, as well as offering clear depictions of diversity in the nation’s population, are prominent objectives of the United States Census Bureau. However, the government agency has often missed its mark.…