Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • 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…

  • Helping mixed-race Asian kids navigate a world that isn’t post-racial

    Helping mixed-race Asian kids navigate a world that isn’t post-racial The Seattle Times 2016-03-16 Jerry Large, Columnist Sharon H. Chang is author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Children in a Post-Racial World.” (Courtesy of Sheila Addleman) Seattle author writes about the challenges of raising multiracial Asian children in America and helping then overcome racial biases.…

  • The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People?

    The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-03-15 Katherine Du Humans like to place things in categories and can struggle when things can’t easily be categorized. That also applies to people, a study finds, and the brain’s visual biases may play a role in…

  • A Perceptual Pathway to Bias: Interracial Exposure Reduces Abrupt Shifts in Real-Time Race Perception That Predict Mixed-Race Bias

    In two national samples, we examined the influence of interracial exposure in one’s local environment on the dynamic process underlying race perception and its evaluative consequences.

  • Seeking Participants: Experiences of People who have Biological Parents of Different Racial Backgrounds

    Seeking Participants: Experiences of People who have Biological Parents of Different Racial Backgrounds University at Albany, State University of New York 2016-03-14 Michael Gale Experiences of racism have been found to be inversely linked to health and mental health among racial minority individuals, including those who identify as biracial or multiracial. Mixed race theorists have…

  • “Mulatto: It’s Not a Cool Word”

    “Mulatto: It’s Not a Cool Word” The Atlantic 2016-03-04 Nadine Ajaka, Associate Producer for Video Evoking the Mulatto is a multimedia project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, through the lens of the history of racial classification in the United States. It was created by the filmmaker Lindsay Catherine Harris, and features compelling…

  • The Lucky Seven Interview, with Adebe DeRango-Adem

    The Lucky Seven Interview, with Adebe DeRango-Adem Open Book: Toronto 2016-02-28 Grace O’Connell, Senior Editor The metaphor of striking out to explore unknown land is a particularly apt one for the act of writing, so the title Terra Incognita (Inanna Publications) fits Adebe DeRango-Adem’s new collection of poetry perfectly. Exploring racial discourse in both contemporary…

  • Documenting Contested Racial Identities Among Self-Identified Latina/os, Asians, Blacks, and Whites

    Documenting Contested Racial Identities Among Self-Identified Latina/os, Asians, Blacks, and Whites American Behavioral Scientist Volume 60, Number 4 (April 2016) pages 442-464 DOI: 10.1177/0002764215613396 Nicholas Vargas, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Sociology University of Florida Kevin Stainback, Associate Professor of Sociology Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana A contested racial identity refers to incongruence…

  • We Live Here rerun: Being biracial in America

    We Live Here rerun: Being biracial in America St. Louis Public Radio 90.7 KWMU, KWMU-2, KWMU-3: News That Matters. Saint Louis, Missouri 2016-03-07 Shula Neuman, Executive Editor We originally aired this podcast on what its like to be multi-racial about six months ago. The project was the brainchild of Emanuele Berry, one of the founding…

  • The Racial Reality of Being Mixed Race

    The Racial Reality of Being Mixed Race 91.3 KBCS Radio Bellevue, Washington 2016-03-04 Sonya Green, News & Public Affairs Director What does it mean to mixed race? It’s a term recognized but rarely considered in conversations about race and racial identity. However, it should be since according to reports, multiracial individuals are the fastest growing…