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: Identity Development/Psychology
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‘Brown babies’ long search for family, identity Indianapolis Recorder 2011-11-23 Stephanie Siek (CNN) — Daniel Cardwell’s obsession consumed three decades of his life and $250,000 of his money, he estimates. His energy has been devoted to answering one basic question: “Who am I?” Cardwell was a “brown baby”—one of thousands of children born to African-American…
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I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World
I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World Jossey-Bass May 2000 304 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7879-5234-1 Marguerite A. Wright A child’s concept of race is quite different from that of an adult. Young children perceive skin color as magical—even changeable—and unlike adults, are incapable of understanding adult predjudices surrounding…
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Living in Ambiguity with Carl Olsen Mixed Race Radio 2012-09-05, 16:00Z (12:00 EDT, 09:00 PDT) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Carl Olsen Colorado State Univeristy Carl is a regular guest on Mixed Race Radio and self- identifies as Japanese and White. Originally Carl was going to discuss his experience being marked as white on a traffic…
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The son of an Irish American father and Japanese mother, Murphy-Shigematsu has devoted his life to understanding himself as a product of his diverse roots. Across twelve chapters, his reflections are interspersed among profiles of others of biracial and mixed ethnicity and accounts of their journeys to answer a seemingly simple question: Who am I?
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Questioning Being Black and White in Canada Canadian Dimension: for people who want to change the world 2012-08-24 Denise Hansen “Canadians have a favourite pastime, and they don’t even realize it. They like to ask—they absolutely love to ask—where you are from if you don’t look convincingly white. They want to know it, they need…
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Afua Hirsch: Our parents left Africa – now we are coming home The Guardian 2012-08-25 Afua Hirsch, West Africa Correspondent As a child in London, Afua Hirsch was embarrassed by her African roots. Then, in February, she became a ‘returnee’, choosing to live in her parents’ birthplace, Ghana. Her story is echoed across the continent:…
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Dwanna L. Robertson: Indian Identity Still Controversial Indian Country Today Media Network 2012-08-21 Carol Berry If she’d planned to tackle some of the most contentious issues in Indian country, a Mvskoke (Creek) sociologist couldn’t have done a better job. Blood quantum, lineal descent, tribal membership, federal recognition, sovereignty—all came under the scrutiny of Dwanna L.…
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An Exploration of Healthy Adjustment in Biracial Young Adults Univesity of California, Davis 2008 175 pages Tamu Corrine Nolfo A DISSERTATION Submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Human Development Given the historically negative views of interracial marriages and mixed race children proliferating the popular American social…