Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

recent posts

about

Category: Identity Development/Psychology

  • The Advantage Of Dual-Identities (A Case Study of Nabokov)

    The Advantage Of Dual-Identities (A Case Study of Nabokov) Wired Magazine 2011-01-31 Jonah Lehrer, Contributing Editor Vladimir Nabokov was a lepidopterist. No, really. While Proust wasn’t actually a neuroscientist—just an extremely intuitive novelist—Nabokov spent six years as a research fellow at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, obsessing over the details of the Polyommatus blues.…

  • Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words

    Mixed-Race Celebrities on Race, in their Own Words Time Magazine: Healthland 2011-02-15 Meredith Melnick, Reporter and Producer Who Are You? If biracial and multiracial celebrities have anything in common, it is that they are often asked to explain themselves. That may sound familiar to any person of mixed ancestry for whom questions like “What are…

  • Mixed race students, interracial couples become norm as US diversifies

    Mixed race students, interracial couples become norm as US diversifies The Flor-Ala (Student newspaper of the University of North Alabama) Florence, Alabama 2011-02-10 Lucy Berry, News Editor When some people see UNA students Lauren Kirby and DeForrest Brown together in public, one of the first things they notice about the couple are their racial differences.…

  • Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia

    Racial Purity and Interracial Sex in the Law of Colonial and Antebellum Virginia Georgetown Law Review Volume 77, Number 6 (August 1989) pages 1967-2029 A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., Judge (1928-1998) United States Court of Appeals (3rd Circuit) Barbara K. Kopytoff, Professor of Law (1938-1999) University of Pennsylvania I. Introduction There is probably no better place…

  • Diversity is Me (survival guide for mixed race people)

    Diversity is Me (survival guide for mixed race people) Lulu Publishing 2010 212 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-557-54051-8 Also available in PDF Format Vanessa Girard As human beings we all share a spirit that demands identity, acknowledgment and regard. It is in the attempts to meet these demands that we encounter road blocks toward self-discovery. Who…

  • Counting by Race Can Throw Off Some Numbers

    Counting by Race Can Throw Off Some Numbers The New York Times 2009-02-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Race Remixed: The Pigeonhole Problem. Articles in this series explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans. The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins—a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent—as “Hispanic.”…

  • Where the interracials may take us

    Where the interracials may take us Los Angeles Times 2010-09-21 Eli Steele Of all Americans, they represent the best opportunity to end identity politics and point America back to its tradition of individualism. We may be in the midst of an interracial baby boom. A recent Pew Research Center study reported that interracial marriages rose…

  • Johanna Workman to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat

    Johanna Workman to be Featured Guest on Mixed Chicks Chat Mixed Chicks Chat (The only live weekly show about being racially and culturally mixed. Also, founders of the Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival) Hosted by Fanshen Cox and Heidi W. Durrow Website: TalkShoe™ (Keywords: Mixed Chicks) Episode: #192-Johanna Workman When: Wednesday, 2011-02-09, 22:00Z (17:00 EST,…

  • This is who I am: Defining mixed-race identity

    This is who I am: Defining mixed-race identity The Seattle Times 2008-09-28 Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times staff The story of race in the U.S. is changing, and so is the way many of us identify ourselves. That’s especially true in the Seattle area, which has a higher concentration of mixed-race people than any other metro…

  • Identifications and cultural practices of mixed-heritage youth

    Identifications and cultural practices of mixed-heritage youth Paper presented in the eConference on “Mixedness and Mixing: New Perspectives on Mixed-Race Britons” Commission for Racial Equality 2007-09-04 through 2007-09-06 4 pages Martyn Barrett, Professor of Psychology University of Surrey David Garbin, Research Fellow Centre for Research on Nationalism, Ethnicity and Multiculturalism University of Surrey John Eade,…