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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Ethnic Identity of Biethnic Mexican American/European Americans Raised in Texas Texas Tech University May 2005 73 pages Kristal L. Menchaca A Thesis in Human Development and Family Studies Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of Texas Tech University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science The primary purpose of this…
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The Author Speaks: Interview With Daniel J. Sharfstein AARP Bulletin American Association of Retired Persons 2011-02-17 Julia M. Klein His powerful new book examines how three American families became white Before Daniel J. Sharfstein’s senior year at Harvard, he spent the summer of 1993 in South Africa as a volunteer for a voter education project.…
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College Essay Part II, Unabridged: The Undergraduate Years Amherst College The Amherst Story Project Fall 2008 Brunnell Velázquez ’11 I enjoy looking at myself in the mirror. Lately, I find that the bathroom mirrors in Morrow dormitory give off the clearest reflections of my gorgeous, most handsome features. Since it is not in my nature…
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Honoring Our Legacy: Past, Present and Future, RED/BLACK Connections Indian Voices October 2010 pages 8-9 Black Native American Association’s First Multi-Cultural National Pow Wow California State University Eastbay-Hayward September 18-19, 2010 On Friday, September 17, a workshop examined the Red/Black relationships and how to improve them. Noted participants on the panel included Black Seminole Lonnie…
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Mothering Children of African Descent: Hopes, Fears and Strategies of White Birth Mothers The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 1 (November 2007) pages 62-76 Annie Stopford, Ph.D., Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Adjunct Research Fellow University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Introduction It is often acknowledged that African identities are “complex, contested and contingent,”…
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Estelusti Marginality: A Qualitative Examination of the Black Seminole The Journal of Pan African Studies Volume 2, Number 4 (June 2008) pages 60-80 Ray Von Robertson, Assistant Professor of Sociology Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas Approximately four years ago, I began collecting interview data with Black Seminoles/Estelusti in Oklahoma. My research focused on how the Black…
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Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans (review) Journal of Interdisciplinary History Volume 41, Number 4, Spring 2011 pages 661-663 E-ISSN: 1530-9169, Print ISSN: 0022-1953 Mary Niall Mitchell, Associate Professor of History New Orleans University Shirley Elizabeth Thompson. Exiles at Home: The Struggle to Become American in Creole New Orleans.…
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2011 Southern Arizona Asian American & Pacific Islander Conference “Reach, Inspire, Connect” Pima Community College – West Campus 2202 West Anklam Road Tucson, Arizona 85709 Saturday, 2011-03-19 from 08:00 to 14:00 MDT (Local Time) Conference Program… 09:00-09:50 – Session “A” Workshop 4: Mixed Race – A popular 2009 workshop returning this year. The presenter…