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: Asian Diaspora
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Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad Duke University Press October 2004 280 pages 9 b&w photos, 2 maps Cloth ISBN: 0-8223-3376-7, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3376-0 Paperback ISBN: 0-8223-3388-0, ISBN13: 978-0-8223-3388-3 Aisha Khan, Associate Professor of Anthropology New York University Mixing—whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism—is a…
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Kip Fulbeck: Part Asian, 100% Hapa University of North Carolina FedEx Global Education Center 2009-07-01 through 2009-10-31 08:00 to 21:00 (ET Local Time) For this exhibition of portraits, artist Kip Fulbeck traveled the country photographing Hapa of all ages and walks of life. Once a derogatory label derived from the Hawaiian word for “half,” the…
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Miscegenating the Discourse: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Literature Jessica Hagedorn In Conversation with Wei Ming and Laura Kina As part of The President’s Signature Series 2009-2010 2009-10-22 at 18:00 CDT (Local Time) DePaul University Art Museum 2350 N Kenmore This event is co-sponsored by Asian American Studies, The Cultural Center, English, The President’s…
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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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Beautiful beasts: Ambivalence and distinction in the gender identity negotiations of multiracialised women of Thai descent Women’s Studies International Forum Volume 30, Issue 5 (September-October 2007) Pages 391-403 DOI: 10.1016/j.wsif.2007.07.003 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada This qualitative analysis of interviews with women of…
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In entering into the twenty-first century, one might affirm that the face of Chinese America has changed or has it? Chineseness has been constantly conceptualized through the measure of phenotype, the quantity of blood, the preservation of language, or the possession of surname. But what happens when African American bodies and other nonwhite cultural sites…
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Hybrid Border-Crossers? Towards a Radical Socialisation of ‘Mixed Race’ Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Volume 35, Issue 1 (January 2009) pages 115 – 132 DOI: 10.1080/13691830802489275 Jin Haritaworn, Assistant Professor in Gender, Race and Environment at the Faculty of Environmental Studies York University, Canada The celebration of ‘mixed race’ as the model ‘transgressive’ (post-)identity…