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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Interrogating Identity Construction: Bodies versus Community in Cynthia Kadohata’s In the Heart of the Valley of Love Asian American Literature: Discourses & Pedagogies Volume 1 (2010) pages 61-69 Nicole Myoshi Rabin, Instructor of Liberal Arts & Interdisciplinary Studies Emerson College, Boston. Massachusetts In an interview for the journal MELUS, Hsiu-chuan Lee claims that Cynthia Kadohata…
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AAS 436–Politics of Racial Ambiguity University of Nevada, Las Vegas Fall 2010 Rainier Spencer, Professor and Director, Afro-American Studies Program Interdisciplinary investigation of contemporary American black/white multiracial identities, including analyses and assessments of the “multiracial identity movement” in the United States.
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New England Identities: Black New England Conference University of New Hampshire 2009-06-11 thorugh 2009-06-13 New England: Beyond Black & White Moving beyond rigid racial identities, this year’s conference will explore the contemporary as well as historic interactions between Black and Indigenous communities, the presence of “passing” mixed race individuals, and the more recent immigrant experience,…
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Thinking outside the box: Racial self-identification choice among mixed heritage adolescents University of Pennsylvania 2009 234 pages ISBN: 9781109236088 Michele Munoz-Miller A Dissertation in Education Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The purpose of this study was to explore…
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The physical and mental health of multiracial adolescents in the United States University of Pennsylvania 2007 101 pages ISBN: 9780549117445 Jamie Mihoko Doyle Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology University of Pennsylvania A dissertation in Demographic Presented to Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy…
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“A gallant heart to the empire.” Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures Philological Quarterly Volume 83, Number 2, Spring, 2004 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003…
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You Have Given Me a Country Sarabande Books 2010-08-15 208 pages 9 x 6 Paperback ISBN: 13: 978-1-932511-82-6 Neela Vaswani, Teacher in the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program Spalding University You Have Given Me a Country is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoir,…
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Written in 1929 at the height of the Harlem Renaissance by one of the movement’s most important and prolific authors, “Plum Bun” is the story of Angela Murray, a young black girl who discovers she can pass for white. After the death of her parents, Angela moves to New York to escape the racism she…
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The Tapestry of Walter White’s Contradictions [Book Review] Sewanee Review Volume 118, Number 3, Summer 2010 pages lxxxii-lxxxiv E-ISSN: 1934-421X Print ISSN: 0037-3052 Sanford Pinsker, Emeritus Professor of English Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Tom Dyja. “Walter White: The Dilemma of Black identity in America”. The Library of African American Biography. Lanham, Maryland: Ivan R. Dee Publishsers,…