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: Asian Diaspora
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Is it still Interracial dating when you’re mixed? Fusion 2015-02-19 Simone Jacobson Washington, D.C. No matter where I live or whom I date, I will always be out of context. Here’s how it all began: My mother and my maternal grandparents were born in Burma. My grandpa’s father was Chinese and my grandma’s father was…
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Laura Kina: Blue Hawai’i Harold B. Lemmerman Gallery New Jersey City University Hepburn Hall, Room 323 2039 Kennedy Boulevard Jersey City, New Jersey 2015-01-27 through 2015-03-03 Artist Reception: 2015-01-29, 16:30-19:30 EST (Local Time) Artist Talk: 2015-03-02, 17:30-18:30 EST (Local Time) Laura Kina, Canefield Workers, 2013, oil on canvas, 30 x 45 inches. “You won’t find…
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Mixed Feelings The Center for Asian American Media 1998 45 minutes, VHS Mikko Jokela, Director/Poducer Through interviews with five UC Berkeley students and teachers of mixed ethnic heritage, filmmaker Mikko Jokela illuminates the experience of what it is like to grow up part Asian in American society. His peers offer personal anecdotes detailing how their…
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Growing Up As A Hafu In Japan GaijinPot 2014-08-23 Yumi Nakata Even though Japan is far more Westernized today than it has ever been, it still remains a very homogeneous country. The government has been trying to promote internationalization and also improve the English curriculum in schools but the process takes times and Japan is…
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What Are Words Worth: Hapa, Hafu or Mixed-Race? Pacific Citizen: The National Newspaper of the JACL Los Angeles, California 2015-01-27 Gil Asakawa I’ve just finished writing revisions for a new edition of my book, “Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa … & Their Friends,” which will be published this July by Stone…
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Katanga’s forgotten people FRANCE 24 2010-03-16 Marlène Rabaud Arnaud Zajtman Like many mixed-race children in Congo, they were born of a Japanese father who came to work in the mines of Katanga in south-east of the country. Today, they accuse their fathers of wanting to kill them so as not to leave behind any traces when…
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Part Asian-American, All Jewish? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2015-02-10 Rachel Gross, Editor Moment Magazine I was five years old when my mother threatened to give me away to journalist Connie Chung. Chung and her husband, Maury Povich, had just announced their intention to adopt a half-Chinese, half-Jewish child.…
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INTERVIEW: Jason Fung, Author of ‘Beyond Eurasian and Hapa’ Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2015-02-02 Grace Hwang Lynch I recently had a chance to interview Jason Fung, author of the upcoming book Beyond Eurasian and Hapa. Fung is a 34-year-old mixed-race (Chinese and Caucasian) person who went to high school and college in…