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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Category: Identity Development/Psychology
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Tiger Mom’s Hapa Cubs Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu 2012-05-09 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University Are persons with one Asian parent and one non-Asian parent Asian or not Asian? Schools don’t seem to know where to place them, leaving them on their own to determine their identities. In the article, “Some Asians’ college strategy: Don’t check ‘Asian’,” some young…
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Rutgers Group Brings Students Together to Explore the Complexities of Being Multiracial Focus Rutgers University News September 2012 Carrie Stetler By 2050, one in five Americans is likely to be multiracial It’s a question Joan Gan hears a lot: “What are you?” She instantly knows what it means. Her father is Chinese and her mother…
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Mixed-race teen in the middle: who will she choose? Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2012-09-23 Leonora LaPeter Anton, Times Staff Writer Her dark eyes scanned the fluorescent-lit lunchroom, locking onto her friends in the center of the chaos. Her thoughts sprayed in many directions: the upcoming eighth-grade formal, a surprisingly bad grade she recently…
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Creating the Covers of Our Own Books: A Look at Multiracial Identity Communication Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington December 2011 63 pages Helyse Sina Turner A Thesis Presented to the Faculty in Communication and Leadership Studies School of Professional Studies Gonzaga University, In Partial Fulfillment Of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Communication…
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Standing Up at an Early Age The New York Times 2012-09-14 Adam Himmelsbach Views on Gay Rights of Ravens’ Ayanbadejo Are Rooted in Upbringing In recent weeks, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Brendon Ayanbadejo has been praised in many quarters for supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage. His stance is not new, but it reached a wider…
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The Lure of Whiteness and the Politics of “Otherness”: Mexican American Racial Identity University of Texas, Austin 2004 185 pages Julie Anne Dowling Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the The University of Texas at Austin In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Using a…
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Reflections of a Racial Queer Multicultural Perspectives Volume 12, Issue 2, 2010 pages 107-112 DOI: 10.1080/15210960.2010.481213 Aurora Chang-Ross Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin In this article, I reflect on my personal experiences of racial queerness. In an effort to speak my secrets, I explore my identity production as a Multiracial person by critically examining my positionality…
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An Exploration of Factors Influencing Multiracial/Multiethnic Identity Development: A Qualitative Investigation University of St. Thomas, Saint Paul, Minnesota 2012-05-12 Anesh S. Patel A Doctoral Project Presented to the Graduate School of Professional Psychology in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Psychology As of 2000, one in forty Americans identified themselves…
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Biracial and monoracial infant own-race face perception: an eye tracking study Developmental Science Published online: 2012-09-07 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01170.x Sarah E. Gaither Department of Psychology Tufts University Kristin Pauker, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Hawaii Scott P. Johnson, Professor of Psychology University of California, Los Angeles We know that early experience plays a crucial role…