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
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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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Stunning Portraits of Mixed-Race Families Slate 2014-06-24 David Rosenberg, Editor of Slate’s Behold blog Fascinated by the evolution of identity, the photographer Cyjo, who styles her name CYJO, has created a series of portraits that examines how race, ethnicity, and heritage contextualize a person as an individual, and how they coexist within the framework of…
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Say Hapa, With Care AAPI Voices: Amplifying the voices of Asian Pacific America. 2014-06-18 Sharon Chang, Guest Columnist What does Hapa mean? One way to know is to look at the ways in which the word is used. It’s a “Hawaiian word for ‘mixed-race’,” says Hapa Kitchen Supper Club, “coined to refer to people of…
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Search through own heritage leads evangelist to story about enslaved mixed-race pastor The Advocate Baton Rouge, Louisiana 2014-06-16 Mark H. Hunter, Special to The Advocate If local school district officials knew then what Sammy Tippit knows now, he might not have been allowed to attend Istrouma High School. Tippit, 66, is a world-renowned evangelist who…
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On The Census, Who Checks ‘Hispanic,’ Who Checks ‘White,’ And Why Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-16 Gene Demby, Lead Blogger We’ve been talking a lot lately about how who fills out the Census in what way. It’s an ongoing preoccupation of Code Switch, and one shared by Julie…
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When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child’s Vulnerability Psychology Today 2014-06-15 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Stanford University I thought summer camp would be endless fun. My two best friends were going and I wanted to go with them so badly I asked my dad to lie about my age so I could get in.…
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Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege Salon Thusday, 2014-05-29 Joan Walsh, Editor at Large The killer’s Asian heritage matters. So does his ugly class entitlement. Misogyny crosses lines of race and culture The widespread recognition that Elliot Rodger’s killing spree was the tragic result of misogyny and male entitlement has been a little bit surprising, and…
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Representations of mixed race Asian Americans in popular culture