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
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- 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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The Skin Color of Children from White By Near-White Marriages The Journal of Heredity Volume 38, Number 8 (August 1947) pages 233-234 Curt Stern (1902-1981), Professor of Zoology and Genetics [Read a biographical memoir by James V. Neel here.] University of California, Berkeley It is well known that the inheritance of color differences in negro-white crosses…
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The Shifting Race-Consciousness Matrix and the Multiracial Category Movement: A Critical Reply to Professor Hernandez Boston College Third World Law Journal Volume 20, Number 2 (Spring 2000) pages 231-290 Reginald L. Robinson, Professor of Law Howard University In this article, the author posits that race as an idea begins with consciousness that reinforces that race…
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DNA Is Only One Way to Spell Identity The Washington Post 2006-01-01 W. Ralph Eubanks Every year,” I once overheard my father say jokingly to a friend, “thousands of Negroes disappear.” I remember my 8-year-old imagination going into overdrive, picturing people zapped from their homes in the middle of the night. It was only as…
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Chinese America and the Multiracial Family Chinese American Forum Special Edition (June 2004) pages 15-19 Amy Klazkin This week my husband and I sold our second car. We live in the city, and we don’t need two, so we listed the car on an internet forum and got lots of responses. The first and most…
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Making Sense of New Census Classifications for Race UCLA School of Public Health Magazine June 2007 page 31 STARTING WITH THE 2000 CENSUS, the federal government revised how it collects data on race and ethnicity—respondents were allowed to identify themselves as a member of more than one category (which 7 million opted to do), whereas…
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Classification of Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Public Health Annual Review of Public Health Volume 24 (May 2003) pages 83-110 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.24.100901.140927 Vickie M. Mays, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Health Services University of California, Los Angeles Ninez A. Ponce, Associate Professor of Public Heath University of California, Los Angeles Donna L. Washington, M.D.…
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Where Black-White Couples Live Urban Geography Volume 32, Number 1 (2011-01-01 through 2011-02-14) pages 1-22 DOI: 10.2747/0272-3638.32.1.1 Richard Wright, Professor of Geography Dartmouth College Mark Ellis, Professor of Geography University of Washington Steven Holloway, Professor of Geography University of Georgia This study analyzes where households headed by Black-White, mixed-race couples live in cities. Using 2000…