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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“Little White Lie”: Black And Jewish Filmmaker Documents Growing Up Believing She Was White Madame Noire 2014-08-04 Veronica Wells Most of us know from a very early age that we’re Black. It happens so early that many of us can’t remember a specific conversation or moment where we learned this truth. But that wasn’t the…
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Checking new boxes Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2014-07-23 Ashley Farmer, Postdoctoral Fellow Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research Political Scientist Lauren Davenport reveals the importance of gender in understanding multiracialism Since 2000, the year the U.S. census first allowed respondents to identify as multiracial or multiethnic, the number…
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Reading Race in Nella Larsen’s Passing and the Rhinelander Case African American Review Voluume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 345-361 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0076 Rebecca Nisetich, Assistant Director, Honors Program University of Southern Maine Toward the end of Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), the protagonist Irene Redfield imagines how her friend Clare Kendry’s racist husband might react…
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Mixed race kids a new phenomenon in the Netherlands? We think not. Africa Is a Country 2014-06-11 Chandra Frank Mieke Weisemann This week cultural centre de Balie in Amsterdam will be hosting an event titled ‘LovingDay.nl: (In)visibly Mixed’ on “mixed race” families and relationships (BTW, the Netherlands uncritically accepts this terminology, along with the assumption…
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The problem with sub-Saharan Africa and DNA analysis tools Genealogy Adventures 2014-07-08 Brian Sheffey This is the first post in a series that covers issues I’ve experienced with reporting of sub-Saharan African results in DNA analysis. This series of posts will have a particular emphasis on DNA testing for African Americans. Over the next series…
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A surprising number of people change their race and ethnicity from one Census to the next The Washington Post 2014-08-06 Emily Badger, Reporter On Census forms, the option to check a box for racial or ethnic identity presupposes that there’s an unambiguous answer: white, black, American Indian, Hispanic, etc. But identity is a fluid thing.…
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“Where a Man is a Man”?: Ancestral Possibilities in Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. African American Review Volume 46, Numbers 2-3, Summer/Fall 2013 pages 397-411 DOI: 10.1353/afa.2013.0048 Susan M. Marren, Associate Professor University of Arkansas This essay reads Charles Chesnutt’s Paul Marchand, F.M.C. not as a historical romance (as Chesnutt’s contemporaneous publishers deemed it) but…
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Your words don’t change who I am The Race Card Project (by Michele Norris) 2014-08-05 Blake Coffey Van Nuys, California In a world where being mixed is supposed to be looked at as beautiful, it’s not as easy when you are. People automatically assume that all mixed people are supposed to look mixed just like…
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Afro-Chinese marriages boom in Guangzhou: but will it be ’til death do us part’? South China Morning Post Magazine South China Morning Post Hong Kong, China 2014-06-01 Jenni Marsh, Assistant Editor Jennifer Tsang and Eman Okonkwo at their wedding in Guangzhou in April. Photo: Jenni Marsh Guangzhou is witnessing many Afro-Chinese marriages, but the mainland’s…