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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‘Everything I Never Told You’ Exposed In Biracial Family’s Loss Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-28 Arun Rath All Things Considered It’s May, 1977, in small-town Ohio, and the Lee family is sitting down at breakfast. James is Chinese-American and Marilyn is white, and they have three children —…
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Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet . . . So begins the story of this exquisite debut novel, about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio.
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CA+T Interview with Laura Kina Center for Art and Thought 2014-09-07 Rachel Ishikawa, CA+T Interviewer Laura Kina, Vincent de Paul Professor Art, Media, & Design DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Rachel Ishikawa: When did art begin for you? Laura Kina: My mom. She had been a double major in art and sociology in undergrad and worked…
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Why Mixed with White isn’t White Hyphen: Asian America Unabrided 2014-07-22 Sharon H. Chang When I wrote my first post for Hyphen, “Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children,” I was deliberately blunt about race. I wrote about how I don’t tell my multiracial son, who presents as a racial minority, that he’s white — but…
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Ghosts of Camptown MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 49-67 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu025 Grace Kyungwon Hong, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles This essay engages the deployment of form in Heinz Insu Fenkl’s Memories of My Ghost Brother (1996), focusing…
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Stunning Portraits of Mixed-Race Families Slate 2014-06-24 David Rosenberg, Editor of Slate’s Behold blog Fascinated by the evolution of identity, the photographer Cyjo, who styles her name CYJO, has created a series of portraits that examines how race, ethnicity, and heritage contextualize a person as an individual, and how they coexist within the framework of…
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Say Hapa, With Care AAPI Voices: Amplifying the voices of Asian Pacific America. 2014-06-18 Sharon Chang, Guest Columnist What does Hapa mean? One way to know is to look at the ways in which the word is used. It’s a “Hawaiian word for ‘mixed-race’,” says Hapa Kitchen Supper Club, “coined to refer to people of…
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When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child’s Vulnerability Psychology Today 2014-06-15 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Stanford University I thought summer camp would be endless fun. My two best friends were going and I wanted to go with them so badly I asked my dad to lie about my age so I could get in.…