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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Census Says There Are More Biracial People, But That Depends On Your Definition of Mixed The Black Snob 2011-04-07 Danielle C. Belton Since 2000, the population of biracial and multiracial people has boomed by 50 percent according to 2010 Census data. The New York Times recently ran a story saying that because of changes in…
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The Changing Face of Liverpool 8 Diverse Magazine 2009 Dave Clay Four hundred years of shackles and chains, four hundred years of racist names and institutionalised racist games, Slavepool’s history has got to change “Slavepool” by Eugene Lange AKA Muhammad Khalil My mate, the late and inspirational, John Hill once described Liverpool-born Black people as…
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Based largely on data collected from oral history interviews, this study examines the construction of triracial ethnoracial identities (African American-Caucasian-American Indian). Here in-depth narratives and analyses of two triracial family histories surface the complex, dynamic, and interactional social contingencies that act on individual and family psychologies to share ethnic identity; these processes are illustrative of…
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Existential hazards of the multicultural individual: Defining and understanding “cultural homelessness.” Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 5, Number 1 (February 1999) pages 6-26. DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.5.1.6 Veronica Navarrete-Vivero University of North Texas Sharon Rae Jenkins, Professor of Psychology University of North Texas Discusses cultural homelessness (CH), the unique experiences and feelings reported by some…
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Identity and Marginality: Issues in the Treatment of Biracial Adolescents American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Volume 57, Issue 2 (April 1987) pages 265–278 DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-0025.1987.tb03537.x Jewelle Taylor Gibbs, Emeritus Professor School of Social Welfare University of California, Berkeley Teenagers of mixed black and white parentage face peculiar difficulties in the developmental tasks of adolescence. The major…