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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Biracial Current and Former Military Dependents Needed New Mexico State University 2016-07-30 Charlotte Williams, M.A. Approved IRB Number #13184 My name is Charlotte Williams and I am a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology program at New Mexico State University. I would like to invite you participate in a study that aims to explore growing…
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The Evolution of My Mixed Race Identity NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2016-07-11 Jeanette Snider, Assistant Director in the Undergraduate Program Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland I recently took an intergroup dialogue-training course for administrators and graduate students interested in leading a related course offered at my university. We…
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A JewAsian July 4th The ProsenPeople: Exploring the world of Jewish Literature Jewish Book Council 2016-07-22 Helen Kiyong Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Samuel Leavitt, Associate Dean of Students Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Earlier this week, Helen Kiyong Kim and Noah Leavitt determined the three takeaways on raising…
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How white parents talk with their black and biracial kids about race The Brood 89.3 KPCC, Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2016-07-19 How does “the talk” about race and policing play out when a parent is white and their children are black or biracial? Listen to the episode here. Download the episode here.
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How parents oppress their mixed race children The F-Word Blog: Contemporary UK Feminism 2016-07-20 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom As a mixed race woman, whenever I come across articles by monoracial parents about their mixed race children, I tend to get a cold feeling of dread of inside. These articles seem to be in…
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More than a coming of age story, Danzy Senna’s first novel, “Caucasia” (Riverhead Books, 1998) addresses themes of coming into consciousness within the U.S. ethnoracial landscape. Clearly in dialogue with Nella Larsen’s “Passing” as well as Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” “Caucasia” is a first person narrative where anything that happens to the protagonist, Birdie Lee,…
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My mixed-race sons look white, but that doesn’t mean racism stays away She Knows 2016-07-09 Fahmida Rashid My mixed-race sons can ‘pass’ for white, and that creates its own pile of issues The first time was when Jake was in kindergarten. He was showing off the drawing of our family: father, mother, baby brother and…
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Picking Sides: An Exploratory Documentary on Multiraciality Arizona State University December 2015 Amanda Catherine Cavazos Multiracial individuals are the fastest growing demographic group in the United States. In order to explore and gain insight into how mixed-race individuals understand and negotiate their identity, this project includes a documentary of compiled interviews with multiracial individuals. These…
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An Undocumented, Unofficial Indian Indian Country Today Media Network 2014-09-06 Chris Bethmann I remember a friend saying to me once, “Chris, you’re not a real Indian. And if you are, you’re the whitest Indian I know.” At the time, I shrugged it off, thinking to myself that he just didn’t understand the complex world of…