Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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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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Betwixt and Between: Embracing the Borderlands of My Mixed Heritage Discover Nikkei 2013-01-23 Mari L’Esperance For weeks I resisted beginning work on this essay. Then, synchronistically, I encountered two pieces at Discover Nikkei that helped me get started. The first was Nancy Matsumoto’s excellent review (December 26, 2012) of Nikkei/Hapa psychologist Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu’s latest book…
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Relationship between physical appearance, sense of belonging and exclusion, and racial/ethnic self-identification among multiracial Japanese European Americans Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology Volume 12, Issue 4, October 2006 pages 673-686 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.12.4.673 Julie M. AhnAllen, Staff Psychologist University Counselling Services Boston College Karen L. Suyemoto, Associate Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies University…
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On Raising Asian-Jewish Children The Jewish Daily Forward the sisterhood: where jewish women converse 2011-05-30 Renee Ghert-Zand The recent Forward article “Raising Children on Kugel and Kimchi, and as Jews” centered on a new study that found that many families in which one parent is Jewish and the other is Asian are raising their children…
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An Examination of Biracial College Youths’ Family Ethnic Socialization, Ethnic Identity, and Adjustment: Do Self-Identification Labels and University Context Matter? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 2012-08-20 DOI: 10.1037/a0029438 Aerika S. Brittian, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology University of Illinois, Chicago Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Professor School of Social and Family Dynamics Arizona State University Chelsea…
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Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating Uncharted Waters Chapter in: Handbook of Asian American Health Springer 2013 pages 129-134 Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-2226-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-2227-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2227-3 Edited by: Grace J. Yoo San Francisco State University Mai-Nhung Le San Francisco State University Alan Y. Oda Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Chapter Author: Cathy J.…
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Afro-Asian Encounters: Reading Comparative American Racial Experiences Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine Africana Studies/Asian Studies Spring 2013 Wendy Thompson Taiwo, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Africana Studies Surveys a breadth of historical and contemporary encounters between African Americans and Asian Americans in the United States. Begins with the earliest waves of Asian immigration in the…
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Race as International Identity? ‘Miscegenation’ in the U.S. Occupation of Japan and Beyond Amerikastudien / American Studies Volume 48, Number 1, Internationalizing U.S. History (2003) pages 61-77 Yukiko Koshiro The article attempts to retrieve the story of the little-known fate of so-called mixed-blood children, those born to American GIs and Japanese women in the aftermath…
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Bengali Harlem The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC 93.9 FM/ 820 AM 2013-01-11 Brian Lehrer, Host Vivek Bald, Assistant Professor of Writing and Digital Media Massachusetts Institute of Technology Vivek Bald, documentary director and assistant professor of writing and digital media at MIT and the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian…
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Nation’s First Asian American Rabbi Inspires Social Change KoreAm: The Korean American Experience 2011-12-06 Rebecca U. Cho Unorthodox Rabbi As a child, Angela Buchdahl stood out as the lone Asian face in the synagogue and at Jewish camps. Today, she holds the distinction of being the nation’s first Asian American rabbi and is helping to…
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“Mixed-Race in the Bible (“Chino-Chicano” Part II) Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2013-01-09 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles As an expression of my multiracial struggles, I used to wrestle a lot with the issue of marriage. I…