Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children

    Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children Hyphen—Asian Americans Unabridged 2014-05-06 Sharon H. Chang “Mom, am I White?” A few weeks ago, when I got this question from my four-year-old, I wasn’t sure what to say. Technically my son is “biracial” — but that label does him a severe representative injustice, because his bloodline is actually…

  • The Future of Multiracial Identity with Sylvia Targ (Palo Alto High School ’16)

    The Future of Multiracial Identity with Sylvia Targ (Palo Alto High School ’16) TEDxYouth 2014-04-19 Sylvia Targ (Palo Alto High School ’16) discusses biracial identity and revolutionary ideas regarding how we view ourselves and others. Sylvia is an avid intern at Stanford Behavioral Sciences & Psychology. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is…

  • Witnesses to History: Children’s Views of Race and the 2008 United States Presidential Election

    Witnesses to History: Children’s Views of Race and the 2008 United States Presidential Election Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Volume 13, Issue 1 (December 2013) pages 186–210 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-2415.2012.01303.x Meagan M. Patterson, Associate Professor of Psychology University of Kansas Erin Pahlke, Assistant Professor of Psychology Whitman College, Walla Walla, Washington Rebecca S. Bigler,…

  • Becoming a black woman: an identity in process

    Becoming a black woman: an identity in process Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2013-07-31 Fernanda Souza “(…) We are born preta (black), mulata, parda, brown, roxinha (a little purple) among others, but becoming negra (black) (1) is an achievement.” (Lélia Gonzalez) “How (does one) to form an…

  • Bi-racial Africans: “diluted” Africans?

    One’s nationality can be determined by where you were born, where your parents are from, where you hold citizenship – politics, geography, circumstance and even choice. There is nothing complicated about where I am from, until I’m challenged to prove it.

  • On mixedness and blackness

    On mixedness and blackness What Nadia Likes 2014-03-14 Nadia Riepenhausen What are you? A question that is fairly straightforward for many, but not so much for me. Before you roll your eyes, expecting to hear another lengthy diatribe about another ‘tragic mullato’ identity crisis, hear me out. A couple of Sundays ago, I found myself…

  • ‘Mixed race’, ‘mixed origins’ or what? Generic terminology for the multiple racial/ethnic group population

    A broad range of terms have been proposed and debated for the ‘mixed race’ population. Dissatisfaction with ‘mixed race’, the term most widely used but contested on the grounds that it references the now discredited concept of ‘race’, has led to the search for an alternative.

  • Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the ‘mixed’ ethnic or racial group

    Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the ‘mixed’ ethnic or racial group Journal of Epidemiolgy and Community Health Volume 64, Issue 6 (2010) Pages 557-560 DOI: 10.1136/jech.2009.088294 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, United Kingdom Background: The way to categorise people born of inter-ethnic and racial unions…

  • Betwixt, Between and Beyond: Racial formation and “mixed race” identities in New Zealand and Singapore

    Betwixt, Between and Beyond: Racial formation and “mixed race” identities in New Zealand and Singapore National University of Singapore 2013 345 pages Zarine Lia Rocha A THESIS SUBMITTED FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY “Mixed race” identities are increasingly important for academics and policy makers around the world. In many multicultural…

  • Mixed Experiences: Growing up mixed race – mental health and well-being

    Mixed Experiences: Growing up mixed race – mental health and well-being Jessica Kingsley Publishers February 2014 96 pages 210mm x 148mm / 8.5in x 5.5in Paperback ISBN: 9781909391154 Dinah Morley and Cathy Street Mixed race is the fastest growing population group of children and young people in England and Wales. The diversity of the mixed…