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
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- 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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Filipino Americans: Blending Cultures, Redefining Race Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-05-24 Renee Montagne, Host There are over 3 million people of Filipino heritage living in the U.S., and many say they relate better to Latino Americans than other Asian American groups. In part, that can be traced to the history…
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Spotlight: Beneath Japan’s polite veneer lies secret codes of racial hatred aimed at minorities, foreigners China.org.cn (China Internet Information Center) State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), Beijing, China 2016-05-21 Xinhua News Agency Is Japan a gentle nation? For many people who have little knowledge about the island country or just…
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Playing Asian: A Review of AATP’s “Yellow Face” Standford Arts Review 2016-05-05 Loralee Sepsey “You don’t have to live as an Asian every day of your life.” These words, spoken by the character David Henry Hwang (Newton Cheng) in Stanford’s Asian American Theater Project’s production of Hwang’s “unreliable memoir” Yellow Face, ring clear throughout the…
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Why Is There No “Linsanity” Over LA Lakers’ Jordan Clarkson? Psychology Today 2016-05-09 E. J. R. David Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology University of Alaska, Anchorage Lack of hype on NBA star may reflect larger issues in Asian American community May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. May is also when the National Basketball Association…
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The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 2016-04-06 222 pages ISBN-13: 978-1522998952 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches Dmae Roberts, Writer, Producer, Media and Theatre Artist The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed-Race Family traces four decades of what it means to be a mixed-race adult who sometimes…
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“Virtues do not all belong to the whites”: The Portrayals of Americanization and Miscegenation in Sui Sin Far’s Mrs. Spring Fragrance SEGue: Symposium for English Graduate Students The College at Brockport, State University of New York 2016-04-23 18 pages Jennifer Bradley Villanova University The works of Sui Sin Far, who is widely recognized as the…
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The Digital Afterlife of Lost Family Photos On Photography The New York Times Magazine 2016-04-26 Teju Cole The backs of found photos from the writer’s “Mrs. X” collection. Credit Jens Mortensen for The New York Times The photographs were Polaroids, taken between the 1970s and the 2000s. Zun Lee bought them at flea markets, at…
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The Life and Work of Doctor-Turned-Photographer Zun Lee PetaPixel 2016-02-13 Michael Zhang, Founder & Co-Editor By day, Zun Lee is a doctor in Toronto, Canada. When he’s not working, he’s often unwinding from stress with a camera in hand. As a self-taught photographer, his documentary and street projects have caught the eye of The New…
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Raising mixed race kids Special Broadcasting Service Corporation Melbourne, Australia 2016-04-27 Ian Rose The prospect of a family holiday has Ian Rose reflecting on the pleasures of bringing up mixed-race children, and the responsibility to keep them in touch with both cultures. Let’s get this out there straight away. I am a pom. An unreconstructed,…