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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Multiracial versus Collective Black Categories: Examining Census Classification Debates in Brazil Ethnicities Volume 6, Number 1 (2006) pages 74-101 DOI: 10.1177/1468796806061080 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Current census debates in Brazil surrounding Brazilian race categories center on two contrasting proposals: the…
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Biracial Youth and Their Parents: Counseling Considerations for Family Therapists The Family Journal Volume 12, Number 2 (2004) pages 170-173 DOI: 10.1177/1066480703261977 Laurie McClurg University of Virginia In spite of recent developments in the area of multicultural family therapy, interracial families and their biracial children remain a neglected population in the mental health field. Very…
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Indians and Mestizos: Identity and Urban Popular Culture in Andean Peru Journal of Southern African Studies Volume 26, Issue 2 (June 2000) pages 239 – 253 DOI: 10.1080/03057070050010093 Fiona Wilson The article begins with a discussion of the chronology of conquest and liberation in Peru and reflects on the changing meanings given to the racial…
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Biracial (Black/White) Women: A Qualitative Study of Racial Attitudes and Beliefs and Their Implications for Therapy Women & Therapy Volume 27, Issue 1 & 2 (January 2004) pages 45 – 64 DOI: 10.1300/J015v27n01_04 Tamara R. Buckley, Associate Professor of Counseling Hunter College, City University of New York Carter T. Robert, Professor of Psychology and Education…