Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads

    Obama’s skin looks a little different in these GOP campaign ads The Washington Post 2015-12-29 Max Ehrenfreund A new study shows that negative ads targeting President Obama in 2008 depicted him with very dark skin, and that these images would have appealed to some viewers’ racial biases. The finding reinforces charges that some Republican politicians…

  • Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns

    Bias in the Flesh: Skin Complexion and Stereotype Consistency in Political Campaigns Public Opinion Quarterly First published online: 2015-12-17 DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfv046 Solomon Messing, Director of Data Labs Pew Research Center, Washington, D.C. Maria Jabon, Senior Software Engineer LinkedIn, Mountain View, California Ethan Plaut, Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University, Stanford, California Researchers manipulated the tone of President…

  • Can we choose our racial identities? Should we?

    Can we choose our racial identities? Should we? Quartz 2015-12-18 Marcie Bianco One human race, divided. (Fanqiao Wang) Can we choose our racial identities? Should we? In 2015, race as an identity has seemed more malleable than ever. As Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown, wrote in this week’s New York Times Magazine, Americans will…

  • White Dads

    White Dads Mixed Roots Stories 2015-12-16 Sarah Gladstone Being brown and having a white dad means something, whether people want to acknowledge it or not. Right now, I’m working on an anthology project—“WHITE DADS: Stories and experiences told by people of color, fathered by white men.” I’ve been loving the ways people are taking this…

  • Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice

    Intergroup Dialogue: Engaging Difference, Social Identities and Social Justice Routledge 2013-05-13 24 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-81970-1 Edited by: Ximena Zuniga, Associate Professor in Social Justice Education University of Massachusetts, Amherst Gretchen Lopez, Director of the Intergroup Dialogue Program and Assistant Professor of Cultural Foundations of Education Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York Kristie Ford, Director of…

  • Do White-Passing People of Color Have Privilege?

    Do White-Passing People of Color Have Privilege? Everyday Feminism 2015-09-07 Marina Watanabe Today I’m going to be answering a question from one of my Patreon patrons (which sounds really redundant) about being a person of color who happens to be white-passing. Before I start this, I want to explain the concept of white-passing. It basically…

  • Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’

    Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn’t identifying as black to upset people. I was being me’ The Guardian 2015-12-13 Chris McGreal, Senior Writer Guardian US Rachel Dolezal at her home in Spokane. Photograph: Annie Kuster for the Guardian She became a global hate figure this year when she was outed as a ‘race faker’. Here, she talks…

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

    Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and multiracial are the fastest…

  • Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children

    Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children The Seattle Globalist 2015-12-09 Sharon H. Chang The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race. Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race,…

  • Mixed race identity and counselling

    Mixed race identity and counselling Therapy Today Volume 26, Issue 10 (December 2015) pages 16-20 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom Nicola Codner describes her own identity as a mixed race woman and calls on counsellors to learn more about the psychosocial needs of our third largest ethnic minority group I felt compelled to submit…