Mixed Race Studies

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  • The Role of Gender, Class, and Religion in Biracial Americans’ Racial Labeling Decisions

    Racial attachments are understood to be socially constructed and endogenous to gender, socioeconomic, and religious identities. Yet we know surprisingly little about the effect of such identities on the particular racial labels that individuals self-select. In this article, I investigate how social identities shape the racial labels chosen by biracial individuals in the United States,…

  • Voices from Mixed Asian America

    Voices from Mixed Asian America MJ Engel Columbia University, New York, New York 2016-01-27 Hearing the unfiltered voices of the mixed Asian experience remains a novelty. “Voices from Mixed Asian America” is a compilation of interviews conducted with eight mixed race individuals. This series amplifies and connects the personal experiences of mixed Asian voices and…

  • Can I Call My Nonbiological Twins Black Because My Husband Is?

    Ethics generally commends telling the truth. But in a situation in which our ordinary ways of thinking are at odds with reality, there can be no easy truth to be had. When it comes to race, confusion is the most intellectually defensible position.

  • Mixed but not matched: Being mixed-race in America

    Mixed but not matched: Being mixed-race in America The Daily Evergreen Washington State University Pullman, Washington 2016-01-21 Sophia Stephens, Evergreen columnist The experience of being a mixed-race person in America can be described in one word – mixed. Depending on how a mixed-race person looks and is perceived, the experience of being an ethnic or…

  • Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race

    Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence: Understanding and Facilitating Difficult Dialogues on Race Wiley January 2015 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-118-95872-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-119-24198-0 E-book ISBN: 978-1-118-95965-7 Derald Wing Sue, Professor of Psychology and Education Columbia University, New York, New York Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Meaningful Dialogue If you believe that talking about race…

  • Between black and white Exploring the “Biracial” Experience

    Between black and white Exploring the “Biracial” Experience Race and Society Volume 1, Issue 2, 1998 pages 197–212 DOI: 10.1016/S1090-9524(99)80044-8 Kerry A. Rockquemore Public debate surrounding the 2000 Census has focused on the addition of a multi-racial category. Advocates of this change assume that persons of mixed-race parentage identify as “biracial” or “mixed” and will…

  • Minorities’ Perceptions of Minority-White Biracials: The Role of Identification for Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Responses

    Minorities’ Perceptions of Minority-White Biracials: The Role of Identification for Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Responses City University of New York 2014-06-03 134 pages Sabrica Barnett A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Psychology in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, the City University of New York Research on…

  • Mixed: The many faces of the multiracial experience.

    Mixed: The many faces of the multiracial experience. The Stream Al Jazeera English 2016-01-20 Femi Oke, Host “What are you?” is an often used opening question that doesn’t always have a short and simple answer. For people with more than one racial background, identity is a lot more than one word; it’s a sentence, a…

  • Black like her: Is racial identity a state of mind?

    Black like her: Is racial identity a state of mind? The Washington Post 2015-06-16 Amy Ellis Nutt, Reporter While people continue to question the motivations behind former NAACP official Rachel Dolezal’s claiming she is black, scientists say identity, even racial identity, doesn’t arise from any single place in the brain. Individuals contain different selves, often…

  • Color Lines: Racial Passing in America

    On this episode of BackStory, the Guys will consider how and why Americans throughout the centuries have crossed the lines of racial identity, and find out what the history of passing has to say about race, identity, and privilege in America.