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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The Leftovers Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2014-08-15 Alexander Chee ‘Everything I Never Told You,’ by Celeste Ng Celeste Ng’s debut novel, “Everything I Never Told You,” is a literary thriller that begins with some stock elements: a missing girl, a lake, a local bad boy who was one of the last to…
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Are There Really Just Five Racial Groups? Slate 2012-05-17 Brian Palmer, Chief Explainer How the government developed its racial-classification system. For the first time in history, more than half of American children under the age of 1 are members of a minority group, according to figures released Wednesday by the Census Bureau. Everyone is familiar…
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Your Face in Mine, A Novel Riverhead Books (an imprint of Penguin Press) 2014-08-14 384 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9781594488344 ePub ISBN: 9780698168817 Jess Row An award-winning writer delivers a poignant and provocative novel of identity, race and the search for belonging in the age of globalization. One afternoon, not long after Kelly Thorndike has moved…
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This essay lauds the publication of the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies, then turns immediately to argue that the journal must focus itself on actively becoming the authoritative voice on mixed-race matters, while also speaking out against naive colorblindness and premature declarations of postraciality. This is crucial because the public receives its information on…
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Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Its Correlates in Families of Black–White Biracial Children Family Relations Volume 63, Issue 2 (April 2014) pages 259–270 DOI: 10.1111/fare.12062 Annamaria Csizmadia, Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Studies University of Connecticut, Stamford Alethea Rollins, Instructor, Child and Family Development University of Central Missouri Jessica P. Kaneakua University of Connecticut Child, family,…
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Lobbying for a ‘MENA’ category on U.S. Census USA Today 2014-08-13 Teresa Wiltz, Pew/Stateline Staff Writer For many Americans, checking the right box on the U.S. Census form is a reflexive gesture, whether it’s marking “black,” “white,” “Hispanic,” “Asian,” “American Indian” — or all of the above. But for Americans of Middle Eastern and North…
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In a Novelist’s World, You Choose Your Race The New York Times 2014-08-11 Felicia R. Lee In the weak light of a February afternoon, Kelly Thorndike has a strange chance encounter in a Baltimore parking lot with Martin Lipkin, an old friend from high school. But time has brought a big change. The Martin that…
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Is Race Plastic? My Trip Into the ‘Ethnic Plastic Surgery’ Minefield New York Magazine 2014-07-27 Maureen O’Connor “You’ve got some nice Caucasian features,” Dr. Edmund Kwan says, inspecting my face at his Upper East Side plastic-surgery practice, where the waiting room includes an ottoman larger than my kitchen table. “You’re half-Asian mixed with what?” Chinese…