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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4 Ways Parents Can Support Their Mixed Race Children Everyday Feminism 2016-01-05 Jennifer Loubriel According to my mom, when my brother was around four or five, my Black (African-American) paternal grandfather put a plate of rice and beans in front of him. My brother immediately burst into tears and asked, “Why do the beans look…
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My mother loved our actual blackness and African-ness, not just the artistic representations of them — the hair and the clothing and the food. She loved the history, the music, the language. And she wanted it FOR US.
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Audiology freshman talks finding cultural identity on campus The Daily Texan: Serving the University of Texas at Austin community since 1900 2016-08-31 Henry Youtt Audiology freshman Karis Paul is the daughter of an Indian father and a half-Irish, half-Austrian mother. Mixed-race students make up only 3 percent of the students on campus. Photo Credit: Juan…
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Looking For Participants For Washington Post Podcast On Mixed-Race Identity Alexandra Laughlin 2016-09-01 I’m a journalist at The Washington Post and I am working on a podcast about mixed race identity in the United States. This is going to be a highly produced, narrative-driven podcast that explores these complex issues through storytelling. Now, I am…
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Your Nationalism Can’t Contain Me The Nation 2016-08-25 Aminatta Forna Aminatta Forna. Photo and Illustration by Jonathan Ring. I’ve held three passports and claimed many identities, all at once. I am the future of citizenship. Those of us who call ourselves British and were of age in 1990 will remember the Conservative politician Norman Tebbit…
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On passing, wishing for darker skin, and finding your people: A conversation between two mulattos Fusion 2015-06-15 Collier Meyerson In 10th grade, I auditioned for the role of Julie in the musical Show Boat, one of the most famous portrayals of the tragic mulatto trope. I was cast, instead, as Queenie, the mammy. I deserved…