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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Where Do We Come From? Discover 2003-05-01 Kathleen McGowan Photography by Katy Grannan A new generation of DNA genealogists stand ready to unearth our ancestors. We may not like what they find. Brent Kennedy’s 19th-century ancestors stare out from his photo albums with dark eyes, high cheekbones, olive skin, and thick black hair—a genetic riddle…
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More Iowans identifying as mixed race The Daily Iowan The Independent Daily Newspaper for the University of Iowa Since 1868 2011-04-19 Alison Sullivan Photo: Christy Aumer/The Daily IowanSophomore Tevin Robbins poses in the window of the second floor at the Afro-American Cultural Center on April 5. Robbins is currently majoring in psychology but has switched…
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NHUM3031 Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity The New School Fall 2009 Tracyann Williams, Instructor Passing: (Re)Constructing Identity: “Passing,” a term traditionally used to describe fair-skinned Blacks posing as whites, is, in fact, part of a broader cultural phenomenon that has its origins in the pursuit of “the American Dream.” For the sake of economic comforts, racially, ethnically,…
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Creole Angel: The Self-Identity of the Free People of Color of Antebellum New Orleans University of North Texas August 2006 136 pages Ben Melvin Hobratsch Thesis Prepared for the Degree of Masters of Arts, University of North Texas, August 2006 This thesis is about the self-identity of antebellum New Orleans’s free people of color. The…
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The Missing Box: Multiracial Student Identity Development at a Predominately White Institution University of Nebraska, Lincoln May 2011 153 pages Ashley Michelle Loudd A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of The Graduate College at the University of Nebraska In Partial Fulfillment of Requirements For the Degree of Master of Arts The purpose of this study…