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: Latino Studies
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An Evening with Hip Hop Scholar/Activist and 2008 Green Party Vice Presidential Candidate, Rosa Clemente Yemaya Pictures California State University, Los Angeles 2014-05-08, 20:00 PDT 5151 State University Drive Annenberg Science Building 132 (Science Building Wing B, Lecture Hall) Los Angeles, California 90032 From May 8, 2014. The Pan-African Studies Department at California State University,…
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On The Census, Who Checks ‘Hispanic,’ Who Checks ‘White,’ And Why Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-16 Gene Demby, Lead Blogger We’ve been talking a lot lately about how who fills out the Census in what way. It’s an ongoing preoccupation of Code Switch, and one shared by Julie…
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Geraldo Rivera: On Being Jew-Rican, A Rare Mixed Breed Fox News Latino 2014-05-16 Geraldo Rivero, Senior Correspondent Fox News (From my speech May 14, 2014 at The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Women’s Philanthropy luncheon) I’d like to talk about being Jewish in a Puerto Rican family by telling you the story of my…
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The Census Can’t Fit Latinos Into A Race Box And It’s Causing More Confusion The Huffington Post 2014-05-22 Roque Planas, Editor Pew revealed the findings of a study this month that shows some 2.5 million U.S. Latinos changed their race category from “some other race” to “white” between the 2000 and 2010 censuses. The news…
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Mexican Americans and the Question of Race University of Texas Press March 2014 184 pages 3 charts, 1 maps, 1 tables 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-292-75401-0 Julie A. Dowling, Associate Professor of Latina/Latino Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign This groundbreaking and timely study explores how Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants develop their racial ideologies…
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More Hispanics Declaring Themselves White The New York Times 2014-05-21 Nate Cohn Hispanics are often described as driving up the nonwhite share of the population. But a new study of census forms finds that more Hispanics are identifying as white. An estimated net 1.2 million Americans of the 35 million Americans identified in 2000 as…