Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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  • Stop Weaponzing Biracial Children

    Raising biracial or multiracial children isn’t a band-aid you can slap onto the festering wound that is racism.

  • I’m a bit brown. But in America I’m white. Not for much longer

    The US Census Bureau plans to redefine ‘white’ to exclude people with Middle Eastern and North African origins. It’s a reminder that the identity has always been fluid

  • Asian Am 251/Af Am 251: The Mixed Race Experience

    Asian Am 251/Af Am 251: The Mixed Race Experience Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Spring 2016 Nitasha Sharma, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Performance Studies; Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence Growing numbers of interracial marriages and children of mixed racial descent have contributed to the increasing diversity of 21st…

  • Multi attends fourth annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    For the first time, Multi, Occidental’s cultural club for multiracial and multicultural students, sent a group of eight members and nonmembers to the 2017 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at the University of Southern California from Feb. 24 to Feb. 26.

  • Gender, race and prejudice

    “As an experimental social psychologist, I’m interested in how people see each other and how that affects their interactions,” says Leigh Wilton, who joined Skidmore’s psychology faculty last year. Her work focuses on race and gender.

  • Louise Erdrich, Matthew Desmond Among Winners of National Book Critics Circle Awards

    Louise Erdrich’s novel “LaRose,” which centers on two Native American families in North Dakota whose lives are upended by a horrific hunting accident that kills a 5-year-old boy, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction on Thursday.

  • Beyond black and white: Color and mortality in post-reconstruction era North Carolina

    A growing empirical literature in economics and sociology documents the existence of more favorable social and economic outcomes among mixed-race blacks compared to non-mixed race blacks. However, few researchers consider whether the advantages associated with mixed-race status extend to mortality.

  • The Mixed Race Athlete’s ECG: Not So Black And White

    Background: The past 2 decades has seen a huge rise in the number of mixed race athletes with one white and one black parent. In fact this is the largest growing ethnic group in both the USA and UK. Little is known on the mixed race athlete’s EKG.

  • The Shadow of Lynching in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    The Shadow of Lynching in Nella Larsen’s Passing Women’s Studies: An inter-disciplinary journal Published online: 2017-02-22 pages 1-22 DOI: 10.1080/00497878.2017.1285767 Kangyl Ko Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea Since Deborah E. McDowell’s groundbreaking essay on the representation of black female sexuality in Nella Larsen’s Passing (1929), many scholars have discussed how the intersectionality of race, class,…

  • The Horror of Smug Liberals

    Oh, those smooth-talking, self-congratulating white liberals. Listen to them moon over Barack Obama. Look at how widely they open their arms to a black visitor. Don’t be duped. They’re wolves in L. L. Bean clothing. There’s danger under the fleece.