Mixed Race Studies

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  • Moral Judgments of Racial Passing

    Moral Judgments of Racial Passing Sponsored Research Lewis & Clark College Portland, Oregon December 2015 The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI) has awarded Assistant Professor of Psychology Diana Leonard a grant from the Grants-in-Aid program. These funds will support Dr. Leonard’s new collaborative research project, “Moral Judgments of Racial Passing: Role…

  • “Passing” “Presenting” & the Troubled Language of Mixed Race

    “Passing” “Presenting” & the Troubled Language of Mixed Race Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2016-04-21 Sharon H. Chang I’m a light-skinned mixed race Asian/white woman. I don’t deny it. On my lightest day, in the deep of winter, under cover of endless Seattle clouds, I could…

  • How poet Ariana Brown became the Afro-Latina role model she needed

    Growing up in San Antonio, [Adriana] Brown said she struggled to find other representations of herself — an Afro-Latina woman from a working class family — both in her community and literature.

  • Raising mixed-race kids who feel secure in their identity

    Raising mixed-race kids who feel secure in their identity NewsWorks WHYY Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2016-04-11 Lori L. Tharps, Assistant Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania I’m black American. My husband is from Spain. Before we started a family, the race of my future children never gave me cause for concern or worry. I guess I…

  • Construction and initial validation of the Multiracial Experiences Measure (MEM)

    Construction and initial validation of the Multiracial Experiences Measure (MEM) Journal of Counseling Psychology Volume 63, Issue 2, March 2016 pages 198-209 DOI: 10.1037/cou0000117 Hyung Chol Yoo, Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies Arizona State University Kelly F. Jackson, Associate Professor of Social Work Arizona State University, Phoenix Rudy P. Guevarra Jr., Asian Pacific…

  • Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against

    Study finds mixed-race individuals are fastest-growing demographic group, most discriminated against The Daily Targum: Serving the Rutgers community since 1869. Independent since 1980. 2016-03-31 Samantha Karas The fastest growing racial group in the United States is mixed-race individuals, but they are also the ones experiencing increasing amounts of prejudice from white people, according to a…

  • Where We Live Affects Our Bias Against Mixed-Race Individuals, Psychology Study Finds

    Whites living in areas where they are less exposed to those of other races have a harder time categorizing mixed-race individuals than do Whites with greater interracial exposure, a condition that is associated with greater prejudice against mixed-race individuals, a new experimental study shows.

  • A conversation on what it means to be mixed race

    A conversation on what it means to be mixed race New Day Northwest KING TV 5 Seattle, Washington 2016-03-30 Margaret Larson, Host The last Census report taken in 2010 showed that the population identifying themselves as multi-racial grew by 32% over the census in 2000. One local author is raising awareness with a new book…

  • “Born With It” – Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Jr.

    “Born With It” – Screening and Discussion with filmmaker Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour, Jr. University of Southern California East Asian Studies Center University Park Campus Leavey Auditorium (LVL) 17 Tuesday, 2016-03-29, 16:15-17:45 PDT (Local Time) Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr., Filmaker “Born With It” follows the story of a 9-year-old Ghanaian-Japanese boy, Keisuke. Keisuke begins at a new school…

  • Book Review – Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World

    Book Review – Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-03-18 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World, Sharon H. Chang, Routledge, 2016, 264pp, £27.99, ISBN 978-1612058481 I was really excited to finally get my hands on a copy…