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
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- 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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To Be Black And Boricua La Respuesta 2015-09-17 At this year’s Afro-Latino Festival of New York, La Respuesta teamed up with Project Bronx, the community-focused web series, for an exciting video collaboration. We spoke with festival attendees, artists, and vendors about a theme central to the festival’s focus. For the past 3 years, the Afro-Latino…
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Marisa Franco The Graduate School University of Maryland 2015-05-21 “My graduate degree is shaping my life and career in a number of ways. The research skills I have gained at the University of Maryland have prepared me for a career in research in academia. An International Graduate Research Fellowship, in addition, gave me the opportunity…
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Impact of Identity Invalidation for Black Multiracial People: The Importance of Race of Perpetrator Journal of Black Psychology Published online before print: 2015-09-08 DOI: 10.1177/0095798415604796 Marisa G. Franco University of Maryland Stephen A. Franco St. George’s University, St. George, Grenada, West Indies Multiracial people report repeated experiences of racial identity invalidation, in which their racial…
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Psychological threat experienced by students of negatively stereotyped groups impairs test performance. However, stereotype boost can also occur if a positively stereotyped identity is made salient. Biracial individuals, whose racial identities may be associated with both negative and positive testing abilities, have not been examined in this context. Sixty-four biracial Black-White individuals wrote about either…
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Raising a Biracial Child as a Mother of Color The Atlantic 2015-09-19 Lara N. Dotson-Renta A mother’s reflection on her own childhood and that of her biracial child—and the inevitable differences of the two. A few months ago, I was walking home from the bus stop with my eldest daughter during the last week of…
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My Music Is My Soul, My Language Is My Armor Psychology Today 2014-12-02 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Ed.D. Stanford University Byron’s story of identity, healing, and empowerment “One night at a pub I heard the sound of traditional Okinawan folk music, and it was like being hit in the head with a hammer. The impact was like…
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Serena Williams, Tiger Woods and racial identity in sports ESPN 2015-09-05 Mike Wise, Senior Writer Mike Wise writes that Serena Williams has embraced her blackness and found a spiritual home while Tiger Woods has been proudly biracial and found a perhaps unintended kind of isolation You can’t miss the term “black excellence” pulsating through Claudia…