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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What Being Mixed Race in a Small Town Does to Your Sense of Beauty: Otherwise Known as Growing Up “Exotic” Bustle 2015-01-06 Justin Robert Thomas Smith Let me just start by saying this: Up until this point (and hopefully for at least a little while longer), I’ve led a relatively charmed life. I grew up…
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When Being Black Is a Family Secret the sisterhood: where jewish women converse The Jewish Daily Forward 2015-01-02 Susan Reimer-Torn When Lacey Schwartz was accepted at Georgetown University, it was a dream come true. It also blew the lid off a tightly-guarded secret. Along with her admission, the high school senior from Woodstock, New York…
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Jewish girl overcomes a ‘Little White Lie’ about race The Kansas City Star Kansas City, Missouri 2015-01-05 Jeneé Osterheldt When I look at one of her old baby pictures, I think of my own childhood snapshots. A mixed little girl sits happily in her white mama’s lap. It’s a sweet picture of Lacey Schwartz and…
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Mixed College Students: WHO vs. WHAT NASPA: Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2014-12-24 Aaron Moore, Residence Life: Hall Director Ohio State University Over the past few weeks I have read Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (2014) and was extremely pleased with the thought provoking and eye opening narratives that were shared…
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So, What Are You?: A Multiracial Perspective On Identity Jossle Magazine 2014-11-18 Leilani Stacy Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “So, what are you?” In a word, “Wasian,” or more accurately, “Multiracial.” Specifically, I’m a quarter Japanese, a “mutt” of white—Scottish, Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, French, English, German, Danish—and probably a little Native American (don’t worry, I didn’t…
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Getting in Touch with Our “Identity” Multiracial Identity Program Portland State University 2015-01-13 through 2015-01-15 Multicultural Center 1825 SW Broadway Smith Memorial Student Union, Suite 228 Portland, Oregon 97201 Wednesday, 2015-01-14, 12:00-13:30 PST (Local Time) The multiple types of racial identities on campus varies. Let’s come together and discuss our identities to break barriers and…
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Multiracial Identity Program – Panel Discussion Multiracial Identity Program Portland State University 2015-01-13 through 2015-01-15 Multicultural Center 1825 SW Broadway Smith Memorial Student Union, Suite 228 Portland, Oregon 97201 Tuesday, 2015-01-13, 16:00-18:00 PST (Local Time) Kickstarting the Multiracial Identity Program, this panel will consist of individuals who identity as multiracial and/or multiethnic. Come together for…
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‘A Tale of Two Plantations,’ by Richard S. Dunn Sunday Rook Review The New York Times 2015-01-02 Greg Grandin, Professor of History New York University Dunn, Richard S., A Tale of Two Plantations: Slave Life and Labor in Jamaica and Virginia (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014). For enslaved peoples in the New World, it was…