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: Papers/Presentations
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‘The Nephew’ and ‘The Front Line’: black and mixed masculinities in Irish Cinema Old Ireland, New Irish: ‘The same people living in the same place’: American Conference for Irish Studies 2009 ‘Into the heartland of the ordinary’: Second Galway Conference of Irish Studies 2009 Hosted by Centre for Irish Studies National University of Ireland, Galway…
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Race, Mixed Race and ‘Race Work’ in Japanese American Beauty Pageants Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Montreal Convention Center Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2006-08-10 Rebecca King-O’Riain, Senior Lecturer Department of Sociology National University of Ireland Long-standing debates within critical race theory about the efficacy of the concept of ‘race’ have…
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The Historical Legal Construction of Black Racial Identity of Mixed Black-White Race Individuals: The Role of State Legislatures Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association Manchester Hyatt San Diego, California 2008-03-20 Richard T. Middleton, IV, Associate Professor of Political Science University of Missouri, St. Louis This research paper is an…
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Essentialism and the Perception of Mixed-Race Individuals: Implications for the Sociopolitical Assimilation of Ethnic Minorities Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting Trinity College Dublin, Ireland 2009-07-14 Arnold Ho Harvard University James Sidanius, Professor of Psychology and of African and African American Studies Harvard…
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The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism in the United States Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2008 Annual Meeting Hynes Convention Center Boston, Massachusetts 2008-08-28 38 pages Awarded the American Political Science Association Public Policy Section 2008 prize for her paper, co-authored with Vesla Weaver, of the University of…
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Beyond Racial Exceptionalism: Explaining the Convergence of Mixed-Race Census Categorizations in Canada, the U.S. and Great Britain Canadian Political Science Association 81th Annual Conference 2009-05-27 through 2009-05-29 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University By examining racial classifications in national censuses this paper will explore moments of policy convergence that defy domestic explanations…
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Nation and Miscegenation: Comparing Anti-Miscegenation Regulations in North America Canadian Political Science Association 80th Annual Conference 2008-06-04 through 2008-06-06 Paper Dated: 2008-05 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly forty years after Loving v. Virginia, the historical prohibition of interracial relationships in the United States exemplifies the state’s regulation of intimate life.…
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The (Mono-) Racial Contract: Mixed-Race Implications Canadian Political Science Association 79th Annual Conference 2007-05-30 through 2007-06-01 Paper Dated: 2007-05-17 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly a decade ago, Charles Mills brought ‘race’ into mainstream political theory through his theory of the Racial Contract; namely, that all social contracts are underwritten by the…