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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When White People See Themselves With Black Skin, Something Interesting Happens The Huffington Post 2014-12-15 Anna Almendrala, Healthy Living Editor Macrina Cooper-White, Associate Science Editor The antidote to racism partly lies in empathy, or the willingness to “walk a mile in someone else’s shoes,” as the saying goes. But scientists from universities across Europe are…
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‘Half Asian’? ‘Half White’? No — ‘Hapa’ National Public Radio Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity 2014-12-15 Alex Laughlin, Social Media Journalist National Journal She was tall and freckled, with long, dark hair — and we stood out in the same way. As I leaned in to say hi, she yelled over the…
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‘I’m proud of my African heritage’ The Korea Times 2014-12-14 Kim Se-jeong Top award winner Park Ji-han says taekwondo changed him When Park Ji-han was in his first year at elementary school, his classmates called him “African shala shala” because of his background and because he spoke Arabic. Now, a decade later, the handsome youth’s…
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Impolite Conversations is a fascinating collection of essay that captures a set of exchanges between journalist Cora Daniels and cultural anthropologist John L. Jackson, Jr.
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Latino Life: Are We Tolerant Of Our Own Hispanic Diversity? NBC News 2014-08-02 Raul A. Reyes Being Latino means being part of a rich, diverse culture. Or does it? Some Latinos feel removed from their peers because of their skin color, language ability, or mixed-race heritage. Others have faced criticism for holding political views at…
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Explaining Ferguson to interracial children KSDK TV-5 St. Louis, Missouri 2014-11-27 Christina Coleman, Anchor-Reporter Family Counselor Michael Herold strongly recommends having plenty of discussions about the different cultural traditions experiences that make up the child’s racial background on both sides of their family. View the video here.