Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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Meet the black Americans going home to China Cable News Network (CNN) 2016-12-27 Yazhou Sun, Producer CNN International Paula Madison grew up knowing she was different. Born in the predominantly African-American neighborhood of Harlem, New York, she was raised by a single mother who looked Chinese. “When my mother opened the door and told me…
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Fatherless and Abandoned, Vietnamese-Americans Search for Their Families Voice of America Learning English 2016-12-21 Hai Do VOANews.com Moki, Tan and Jannies were babies at the close of the American war in Vietnam in the 1970s. Their mothers were Vietnamese. Their fathers were American soldiers. In one way or another, they were all abandoned. Now, the…
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BEST OF 2016: Fractionalized — Stories of Biracial Joy, Pain, Struggle and Triumph Madison 365 Madison, Wisconsin 2016-12-26 Mia Sato University of Wisconsin, Madison Mixed. Multi. One-half-this and one-quarter-that. Biracial, mixed-race, “two or more races.” In a world obsessed with labels, the pressure to claim oneself as part of a racial group is an inescapable…
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Patricia Park talks about her Korean American spin on Jane Eyre The Los Angeles Times 2015-05-12 Steph Cha Patricia Park, author of “Re Jane” (Allana Taranto/Viking) What if Jane Eyre was a Korean American girl and Rochester was a English professor? Patricia Park on ‘Re Jane‘ Patricia Park’s debut novel, “Re Jane” (Pamela Dorman/Viking: 340…
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Re Jane: A Novel Pamela Dorman Books (an imprint of Penguin Random House) 2015-05-05 352 Pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0525427407 Paperback ISBN: 978-0143107941 Patricia Park For Jane Re, half-Korean, half-American orphan, Flushing, Queens, is the place she’s been trying to escape from her whole life. Sardonic yet vulnerable, Jane toils, unappreciated, in her strict uncle’s…
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Escaping slavery, one family’s story Free Press Newspapers Illinois 2016-12-14 Sandy Vasko, Executive Director Will County Historical Society Black history in Braidwood starts during the coal strikes of the 1870s. Before that time the only black people this area knew were passing through on the Underground Railroad. Or did they? As I have learned, not…
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Mixed marriages, stubborn racial bias: Discrimination persists for the nonwhite The New York Daily News 2016-12-09 Tanya Katerí Hernández, Professor of Law Fordham University Mildred and Richard Loving (Associated Press) “I ’m pregnant.” Those are the first two words uttered in the recently released film “Loving.” The poignant opening prompts viewers to consider the most contested…