Mixed Race Studies

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  • Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA

    Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA The 2026 CMRSA Conference Programming Committee Critical Mixed Race Studies Association 2025-06-12 Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) is a biennial conference, field of study, and scholarly and activist community. The CMRS conference draws over 500 multiracial scholars, artists, students, activists, clinicians, community organizations and…

  • Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100

    Participants Needed for a Paid Research Study: Up to $100 Dominique Callahan University of California, Los Angeles 2025-03-10 Hello! My name is Dominique, and I am a graduate student at UCLA. I am currently recruiting participants for my dissertation, which explores how Black parents talk to their biracial Black-White children about race and racial identity…

  • Frederick Douglass, A Life in American History

    Meet one of the most influential men in the United States’ history of emancipation and Black rights.

  • In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own

    The Hollywood pitch goes something like this: Put racially ambiguous Black people in the public eye — Kamala, Meghan, Barack. Have them declare themselves Black. Count down the minutes before the world erupts into outrage, distress and suspicion. People scream their confusion and doubt, accusing the figures of lying about who they really are. It…

  • On Turning Black

    On Turning Black The New York Times 2024-08-01 Esau McCaulley, Contributing Opinion Writer Illustration by The New York Times; Photo: Erin Schaff/The New York Times During his interview before the National Association of Black Journalists this week, Donald Trump was asked if he would call upon his fellow Republicans to refrain from labeling Vice President…

  • The Trial of Mrs. Rhinelander

    Inspired by a real-life scandal that was shocking even for the tumultuous Roaring Twenties, this captivating novel tells the story of a pioneering Black journalist, a secret interracial marriage among the New York elite, and the sensational divorce case that ignited an explosive battle over race and class—and brought together three very different women fighting…

  • Should Harris Talk Much About Her Racial Identity? Many Voters Say No.

    Even as Trump plays up racial divisions, many Americans said they would rather not dwell on race or identity. “We can all see that you’re Black.”

  • Why Kamala Harris’ biracial identity upsets Donald Trump so much

    Acknowledging the existence of multiracial identities completely scrambles Trump’s stereotypes.

  • The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American

    The Lesser-Known Side of Harris’s Identity: Asian American The New York Times 2024-07-28 Amy Qin Kamala Harris spoke during the virtual Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Unity Summit in 2021. Erin Scott for The New York Times Some Asian American leaders are rooting for Kamala Harris to become the first Asian American president. But she…

  • Multiracial Generations: (Mis)Identification & Socialization Experiences of Interminority Multiracials and Half-White Multiracials

    We found that phenotypically ambiguous Multiracials were the most likely to experience misidentification. Interminority Multiracials were more likely to be misperceived as a higher-status ethnoracial group and half-White Multiracials were more likely to be misperceived as a lower-status ethnoracial group. Moreover, phenotypically ambiguous Multiracials reported a marginally higher proportion of non-coracial friends. Furthermore, interminority Multiracials…