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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Category: Identity Development/Psychology
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Secret Asian Woman Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts 2011-03-03 Independent Producer Dmae Roberts presents Secret Asian Woman, a half-hour personal exploration of identity and Mixed Race. Through her personal story, Dmae charts four decades of a search by multiracial peoples for a name. The politics of calling out racism has changed through the years…
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Has perception of biracial women changed in modern times? SMU Daily Campus Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas 2011-05-03 Victoria Ahmadi As a biracial woman myself, I find it essential that society become better informed of the life-altering consequences that biracial individuals are forced to deal with. While the media’s perceptions of identity shift, young women…
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The Complexities of Identity: Teaching Michelle Cliff’s Abeng to High School Students Minnesota English Journal Volume 45 – Fall 2009 pages 19-33 Angie Iserman, English Teacher Owatonna High School, Owatonna, Minnesota When I decided to return to the role of student in order to obtain my graduate degree, my hope was I could bury myself within…
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The Modern Mulatto: A Comparative Analysis of the Social and Legal Positions of Mulattoes in the Antebellum South and the Intersex in Contemporary America Columbia Journal of Gender and Law Volume 15, Number 3 (September 2006) Marie-Amélie George, Associate Lawyer Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Recognizing new social forces working against the “correction”…