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 Struggles Of Being Biracial Odyssey 2016-02-08 Tamera Hyatte “What are you?” I cannot tell you how many times I have been asked this question and the same response I like to give is “I’m human.” I know it strikes people’s curiosity that I am mixed with black and white, having a white father and…
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Filmmakers Behind ‘Invisible Roots’ on Finding Afro-Mexicans Living in Southern California Remezcla 2016-02-16 Walter Thompson-Hernández Los Angeles, California Photo: NOTIMEX/JAVIER LIRA OTERO Almost a year before the Mexican government officially acknowledged Afro-Mexicans as a distinct racial and ethnic group, directors Tiffany Walton and Lizz Mullis first began working on their film, Invisible Roots: Afro-Mexicans of…
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Storytelling matters to Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs Stanford News Stanford University, Stanford, California 2016-02-19 Kate Chesley, Associate Director of University Communications Allyson Hobbs and her award-winning book, A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life ALLYSON HOBBS, assistant professor of American history, finds much of the inspiration for her research in the…
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Skin color matters in Latino/a communities: Identifying, understanding, and addressing Mestizaje racial ideologies in clinical practice. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice Volume 47, Issue 1 (Feb 2016) pages 46-55 DOI: 10.1037/pro0000062 Hector Y. Adames, Professor of Clinical Counseling Psychology Nayeli Y. Chavez-Dueñas, Child Clinical Psychologist, Professor, Researcher Kurt C. Organista, Associate Dean; Professor of Social…
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Mom Writes Book, ‘Bad Hair Does Not Exist!’ For Daughters NBC News 2016-02-17 Maya Chung Bad Hair Does Not Exist/Pelo Malo No Existe! is a Children’s Book by Sulma Arzu-Brown. “Bad Hair Does Not Exist!” is a new bilingual book that encourages young Black, Afro-Latino, and multi-racial girls to see themselves, and their hair, as…