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
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- 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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Essentialism and the Perception of Mixed-Race Individuals: Implications for the Sociopolitical Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2009-07-14 Arnold Ho Harvard University James Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies Harvard…
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“Biracial Women in Therapy: Between the Rock of Gender and the Hard Place of Race” examines how physical appearance, cultural knowledge, and cultural stereotypes affect the experience of mixed-race women in belonging to, and being accepted within, their cultures.
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How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s “Black, Jewish, and Interracial.”
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Jayne Ifekwunigwe discusses the testimonies of women of ‘mixed race’ parentage in the English-African diaspora.
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Mixed Race in Britain: A Survey of the Preferences of Mixed Race People for Terminology and Classifications (Interim Report) Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent at Canterbury July 2006 Peter Aspinall, Senior Research Fellow Centre for Health Services Studies (CHSS) University of Kent Miri Song, Professor of Sociology University of Kent Ferhana…
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The United Colors of Family (Interview with Charmaine Wijeyesinghe) UMass Amherst, The Magazine for Alumni and Friends University of Massachusettes Summer 2007 Interviewed by Faye S. Wolfe …Tell us about your work on racial identity. For my dissertation I interviewed people who were black, white, or biracial. I came up with a model for how…
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Juggling Multiple Racial Identities: Malleable Racial Identification and Psychological Well-Being Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 15, Issue 3, July 2009 pages 243-254 DOI: 10.1037/a0014373 Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Margaret Shih, Professor in Management and Organizations Anderson School of Management University of California, Los…