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
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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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Woman traces her Tanzanian roots in film The Citizen Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 2012-02-04 Tyrone Beason Sometimes a journey begins with a song. In the case of Seattle documentary filmmaker Eli Kimaro, it was a transporting version of the classic lullaby Summertime from the African-American opera Porgy and Bess, this one sung by the Benin-born…
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Normal Families Facing Unique Challenges: The Psychosocial Functioning of Multiracial Couples, Parents and Children The New School Psychology Bulletin Volume 9, Number 1 (2011) Print ISSN: 1931-793X; Online ISSN: 1931-7948 Joshua Wilt Department of Psychology Northwestern University The number of interracial couples in the United States has increased rapidly since anti-miscegenation laws were repealed in…
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Don Lemon: Legacy of ‘one drop’ rule inspires search for family history Cable News Network (CNN) In America: You define America. What defines you? 2012-01-29 Don Lemon, Anchor CNN Newsroom This is final installment of a three-part series about the (1)ne Drop Project. Read Don Lemon’s column, “It only takes one drop,” and Yaba Blay’s…
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The Social Negotiation of Ambiguous In-Between Stigmatized Identities: Investigating Identity Processes in Multiracial and Bisexual People University of Massachusetts, Boston December 2011 234 pages Vali Dagmar Kahn A Dissertation Presented by Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston, in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY…
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Spring 2008 Feature: Acting on a Dream Farmington First: Alumni Magazine University of Maine, Farmington Spring 2008 Marc Glass The stages of H’Nette DeTroy’s dramatic life include theater, dance and even commercial casting Looking at H’Nette DeTroy’s resume, you might think she suffers from career wanderlust. Since graduating from UMF in 2006, she’s been a…