Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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.
about
Category: Identity Development/Psychology
-
The “Multiracial” Option: Social Group Identity and Changing Patterns of Racial Categorization American Politics Research Volume 39, Number 1 (January 2011) pages 176-204 DOI: 10.1177/1532673X10378845 Natalie Masuoka, Assistant Professor of Political Science Tufts University This article focuses on a new and growing trend in the United States: multiracial (or mixed race) identification. Multiracial self-identification forces…
-
Applying Self-Discrepancy Theory to Biracial Identity and Adjustment: A Proposed Study Social-Personality Brown Bag Series University of California, Davis Location: Young 166 2010-11-08, 12:10-13:30 PST (Local Time) Lauren Berger Research suggests that biracials may have poorer mental health than monoracials and a recent meta-analysis (Shih & Sanchez, 2005) cites a lack of research testing potential…
-
This anthology of poetry, spoken word, fiction, creative non-fiction, spoken word texts, as well as black and white artwork and photography, explores the question of how mixed-race women in North America identify in the twenty-first century.