Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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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How is it that people know when they belong and to what they belong? This question, about the epistemology of belonging, carries a particular complexity for mixed-race women.
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Racial Identity and Self-Esteem: Problems Peculiar to Biracial Children Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry Volume 24, Issue 2, (March 1985) Pages 150-153 DOI: 10.1016/S0002-7138(09)60440-4 Michael R. Lyles, M.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry University of Kentucky College of Medicine Antronette Yancey, M.D. University of Kentucky College of Medicine Candis Grace, M.D. University of…
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‘Celtic Samurai’ Tells Story of Hapa Family Life Hokubei.com – North America’s Japanese Newsource 2010-06-18 “Celtic Samurai,” a storytelling program by Dr. Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu on the family life of a Japanese mother and American-born Irish father, will be presented by the Japanese American National Library and the Nichi Bei Weekly on Saturday, June 19, [2010]…
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Developing a positive racial identity–challenges for psychotherapists working with black and mixed race adopted adults The Psychotherapist Spring 2010 pages 10-12 Esther Ina-Egbe, Psychotherapist, Counsellor and Trainer In this article, Esther Ina-Egbe argues that psychotherapists need to explore the repetitions and lack of mirroring that may be present in the therapeutic relationship There is a…
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Women-Loving Women: Queering Black Urban Space during the Harlem Renaissance Women’s Studies 197: Senior Seminar 2010-06-07 Professor Lilith Mahmud Samantha Tenorio The experience of black “women-loving-women” during the Harlem Renaissance is directly influenced by what Kimberlé Crenshaw terms intersectional identity, or their positioning in the social hierarchies of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation that…
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“Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: Racial Identity in the South African Coloured Community” is the first systematic study of Coloured identity, its history, and its relevance to South African national life.