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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What Big Papi, Gwen Ifill, and Celia Cruz have in common.
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Coming from a multiracial background can leave some students feeling isolated
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The author and critic discusses why we should move away from race categories defined ‘using plantation logic’ – and suggests ‘retiring from race’
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While his “Self-Portrait in Black and White” begins with assertions of his blackness, it evolves into a rich set of questions occasioned by the birth of his first child.
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A meditation on race and identity from one of our most provocative cultural critics.
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A compelling and timely debut novel from an assured new voice: Three-Fifths is about a biracial black man, passing for white, who is forced to confront the lies of his past while facing the truth of his present when his best friend, just released from prison, involves him in a hate crime.
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All his life, people have assumed the theatre director is mixed race – and he was happy to embrace that identity. Then he was accused of faking it