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.
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Category: Identity Development/Psychology
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Mixed-race women on what it’s like to feel black but look white.
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The Loving Generation tells the story of a generation of Americans born to one black parent and one white parent. Their narratives provide a fascinating and unique window into the borderland between “blackness” and “whiteness”, and, in some cases, explode fixed ideas about race and identity.
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Seeking Participants for Study Examining Influences on the Racial Identity and Mental Health of Self-Identified Multiracial People Georgia State University College of Education & Human Development Counseling and Psychological Services 2018-01-24 Marisa Franco, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology Participants are wanted for a study examining influences on the racial identity and mental health of self-identified…
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Growing up Mexican Italian American in this context was difficult and dissonant for me. If I had grown up in a different place or class, my mixed experience might have been very different, but then I would not have this story to tell.
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Part of me wants to be completely transparent when talking about being Mixed, and part of me knows I need to take good care of my boundaries. It’s a flexible balance.
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Sam Kaner talks about experiences of racialization as a person of mixed heritage
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You are invited to participate in a study about Biracial women’s identity and activist expression. If you are at least 18 years old, we would like to hear your thoughts in confidential interviews. Your participation can place you in a raffle for a chance to win a $50 Visa Gift Card!
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London play ‘Hashtag Lightie’ puts the spotlight on mixed-race identity