Mixed Race Studies

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  • Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song

    Mixed Race Identities: Written by Peter J. Aspinall and Miri Song The Kelvingrove Review Issue 13: Dialogue Across Decades (2014-05-27) 5 pages Mengxi Pang Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Aspinall, Peter J. and Miri Song, Mixed Race Identities (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), 218 pp. As the fastest growing population…

  • From an Intimate Distance: A Mixed Perspective on Embracing Gratitude

    From an Intimate Distance: A Mixed Perspective on Embracing Gratitude Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-08 Kaily Heitz, Guest Blog Coordinator “The problem is not that we all have these different view of things, it is that we each consider our views the only reality. We forget that life is truly a matter of perspective.” –angel Williams,…

  • The Children of Loving v. Virginia: Living at the Intersection of Law and Mixed-Race Identity

    The Children of Loving v. Virginia: Living at the Intersection of Law and Mixed-Race Identity Martin Luther King Jr. Day Special Lecture University of Michigan 2015-01-19 Martha S. Jones, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, Associate Professor of History University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School Prof. Martha S. Jones, who codirects the Program in Race,…

  • So what are you anyway?

    So what are you anyway? CYF News (CYF News is the newsletter for the Children, Youth and Families Office) American Psycological Association August 2013 Mahogany L. Swanson Individuals in the U.S. with one Black and one White parent use the concept of “race switching” as one mechanism for coping with pressures of racial identity. Although…

  • “Funny—You Don’t Look Jewish!”: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identities of Children of Asian American and Jewish American Spouses

    “Funny—You Don’t Look Jewish!”: Racial, Ethnic, and Religious Identities of Children of Asian American and Jewish American Spouses Journal of Jewish Identities Issue 8, Number 1, January 2015 pages 129-148 Helen Kim, Associate Professor of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Noah Leavitt, Research Associate Department of Sociology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Rachel Williams…

  • Implicit Attitude Generalization From Black to Black–White Biracial Group Members

    Implicit Attitude Generalization From Black to Black–White Biracial Group Members Social Psychological and Personality Published online before print: 2015-01-13 DOI: 10.1177/1948550614567686 Jacqueline M. Chen, Post-doctoral Scholar Department of Psychology University of California, Davis Kate A. Ratliff, Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Florida We investigated whether Black–White biracial individuals are perceived as Black in the…

  • You Can be Both! (And Not In the Way You Might be Thinking)

    You Can be Both! (And Not In the Way You Might be Thinking) Mixed In Canada 2015-01-14 Rema Tavares Dr. Maria P. Root’s “Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People” has greatly influenced how many mixed-race folks identify today. One of the things I learned from the Bill was that I had the right to…

  • “Does it take work leaving your hair like that?” – We resist! Sou negra (I am a black woman)!” – The development of black identity for a negro-mestiça

    “Does it take work leaving your hair like that?” – We resist! Sou negra (I am a black woman)!” – The development of black identity for a negro-mestiça Black Women of Brazil 2015-01-15 “We resist! Negra Soy (I am a black woman)!” (August, 2014) from Biscate Social Club Lia Siqueira Lia Siqueira “Yes, it takes…

  • Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems

    Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems Graywolf Press 2010-08-31 192 pages Trim Size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-55597-567-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-55597-650-7 Thomas Sayers Ellis, co-Founder The Dark Room Collective, Cambridge, Massachusetts The ambitious, combative, and spot-on new poetry book by Thomas Sayers Ellis, author of the award-winning The Maverick Room Skin, Inc. is Thomas Sayers…

  • Caught In-between

    Caught In-between Mixed Humans ~ Reflections on occupying a space of inbetweenness. Persistently grappling with identity. 2015-01-13 Brian Kamanzi Cape Town, South Africa Caught In-between. So for the longest time. I had grown up thinking of myself as an “almost” Indian. A half-Indian. Half caste. Whatever the hell sort of awful approximation of an authentic…