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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Gorgeous Black-And-White Portraits Explore The Meaning Of Multiracial Identities The Huffington Post 2015-03-30 Katherine Brooks, Senior Arts & Culture Editor “I began this project because I recognized that I was part of a underrepresented group of people,” artist Samantha Wall explained in an email to HuffPost. “It’s difficult to talk about multiraciality with individuals who…
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Redefining — by not defining — biracialism The Daily Illini: The independent student newspaper at the University of Illinois since 1871 Tuesday, 2015-03-31 Audrey Majors, Opinions columnist Last week controversy arose over Japan’s 2015 Miss Universe contestant, Ariana Miyamoto, because she’s biracial— something critics, many of whom are Japanese, have taken issue with. Miyamoto has…
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Little White Lie Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Monday, 2015-03-23, 22:00 EDT (21:00 CDT) (check schedule here) Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — despite the open questions from those around…
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6 things I wish people understood about being biracial Vox 2015-03-11 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Race, Law, and Politics Reporter According to the results of a DNA test I took recently, my ancestors on my father’s side are mostly from West Africa (via Arkansas), and the ones on my mom’s side come from Europe. When strangers inquire…
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“What Are You?” That’s None of Your Business Multiracial Asian Families 2015-03-20 Sharon H. Chang A couple months ago I got cornered big time by a stranger and their “What are you?” mind-meld. The unsolicited probing went on for a while. Honestly something I’m used to. But this time was crazy multidimensional and unique in…
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Allan Wolper Talks to Lacey Schwartz Conversations with Allan Wolper WBGO 88.3 FM Newark, New Jersey 2015-03-16 Allan Wolper, Professor of Journalism Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, Newark Lacey Schwartz has written, produced and directed a documentary, Little White Lie, detailing how she grew up as a white, Jewish girl in Woodstock,…
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Was Elliot Rodger Asian American? Reappropriate.co 2015-03-10 Jenn Reappropriate For weeks following the Isla Vista shooting, killer Elliot Rodger was described in mainstream media as a young White man. This was a convenient narrative: Rodger was seen as yet another example of the maligned young vengeance-seeking White male outcast (like Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold…