Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • BEING a mixed-race black person…

    BEING a mixed-race black person… Max News: ‘View from the Bottom’ Magazine of Kevin Maxwell London, United Kingdom 2014-11-05 Kevin Maxwell I was talking with a black woman earlier, and we happened to get on to the subject of race – something close to my skin, literally. She said that a lot of mixed-race people…

  • Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests

    Seahawks’ Russell Wilson Controversy Shows Dangers of Racial Authenticity Tests The American Prospect 2014-11-01 Kevin Cokley, Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology; Associate Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies University of Texas, Austin The ‘are you black enough?’ question is perilously close to the racist one-drop rule of yore—whether called by blacks or whites. Whether…

  • Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders

    Interracial Couples, Intimacy, and Therapy: Crossing Racial Borders Columbia University Press October 2013 280 pages 6 B&W Photos Cloth ISBN: 978-0-231-13294-7 Paper ISBN: 978-0-231-13295-4 Kyle D. Killian, Couple and Family Therapist; Associate Professor and Research Associate Centre for Refugee Studies York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Grounded in the personal narratives of twenty interracial couples with…

  • I have no doubt what colour I am

    I have no doubt what colour I am The Observer London, United Kingdom 2009-01-17 Matthew Ryder, Barrister (QC) London, United Kingdom Let’s get beyond the debate over whether ‘mixed-race’ is synonymous with ‘black’. It is The question of whether someone who is mixed-race is, in fact, “black” has been the subject of much discussion since…

  • Growing Up On Burritos and Black-Eyed Peas: An Autoethnography of Multiracial Identity Development

    Growing Up On Burritos and Black-Eyed Peas: An Autoethnography of Multiracial Identity Development Georgia State University 2014-05-16 210 pages Marie Castro Bruner A Dissertation Presented in Partial Fulfillment of Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Teaching and Learning in the Department of Middle-Secondary Education in the College of Education Georgia State University…

  • Do Mixed-Race (Black/White) People have an Ethical Obligation to Identify as Black?

    Do Mixed-Race (Black/White) People have an Ethical Obligation to Identify as Black? The Center for the Study of Biracial Children 2014-08-15 Francis Wardle, PhD. So says Thomas Chatterton Williams, in a March, 2012 article published in the New York Times. This article joins an increasing number of vocal voices published in progressive publications and in…

  • Shows: One Drop of Love

    Shows: One Drop of Love Mesa Arts Center Nesbitt/Elliott Playhouse One East Main Street Mesa, Arizona 85201 Box Office: (480) 644.6500 Performing Live Series Saturday, 2014-11-01, 15:00 & 19:30 MT (Local Time) Produced by Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and the show’s writer/performer Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, One Drop of Love is a multimedia one woman show. It…

  • ArtsBlast: One resonating drop of Fanshen

    ArtsBlast: One resonating drop of Fanshen Examiner.com 2014-10-29 Jennifer Haaland One conversation with Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni was all it took. After her Examiner interview yesterday, filled with embracing words and vibrant kindness, it was clear that a whole lot more than One Drop of Love is coming to the Phoenix Valley and gracing the Mesa…

  • BSt 335U The Multi-Racial Experience

    BSt 335U The Multi-Racial Experience Portland State University Portland, Oregon 2014-2015 Explores what it means to identify oneself or be identified as multiracial/ethnic. Considers how social class, gender, race and other factors shape the multiracial experience. In addition, explores interracial relationship and the representation of multiracials in the media.

  • Conceptualizing, and Re-conceptualizing, Mixed Race Identity Development Theories and Canada’s Multicultural Framework in Historical Context

    Conceptualizing, and Re-conceptualizing, Mixed Race Identity Development Theories and Canada’s Multicultural Framework in Historical Context SFU Educational Review Volume 1, Number 1 (2014) ISSN: 1916-050X 18 pages Samantha Fischer Department of Psychology Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada “Racism is like a fleet-footed bedbug that runs for cover under a sweet-smelling duvet stuffed with…