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
- 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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Titled after the Latin term for “unknown land”—a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented—”Terra Incognita” is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings buried in history’s grand narratives.
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Adebe DeRango-Adem was recently hailed as a young Canadian author to watch by Canada’s poet laureate, George Elliott Clarke. She is a poet and doctoral student in English literature at University of Pennsylvania.
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I Feel Guilty for Being Able to ‘Pass’ as a Person of Color Kveller 2016-02-18 Elana Rabinowitz Brooklyn, New York He called me negra. Not mami or guapa, but what translates to “black woman.” I wasn’t offended. More confused. The thing is, I’m really just a white Jewish girl from Brooklyn. There, I said it.…
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Participants Needed for Study on the Concept of Bi-Racial Ethnic Belongingness Saint Mary’s University Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada 2016-02-23 Jasmine Moreash The need to belong is a fundamental aspect of life. For bi-racial individuals, ethnic belongingness can be more complicated compared to a monoracial individual. Belongingness contributes to self-esteem and for bi-racial individuals their perceived…
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Skin color matters in Latino/a communities: Identifying, understanding, and addressing Mestizaje racial ideologies in clinical practice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Volume 47, Issue 1 (Feb 2016) pages 46-55 DOI: 10.1037/pro0000062 Hector Y. Adames, Professor of Clinical Counseling Psychology Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Child Clinical Psychologist, Professor, Researcher Kurt C. Organista, Associate Dean; Professor of Social…