Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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
- 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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Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics
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State and federal programs aim to ensure minority-owned businesses can compete for government contracts after generations of institutional discrimination. A Lynnwood man long identified as white is using DNA ethnicity estimates to claim minority status.
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In “Troublesome Science,” Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall provide a lucid and forceful critique of how scientific tools have been misused to uphold misguided racial categorizations.
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The Law and Genetics of Racial Profiling in Medicine Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review Volume 39, Number 2 (Summer 2004) pages 391-483 Erik Lillquist, Associate Provost for Academic Projects & Professor of Law Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey Charles A. Sullivan, Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Finance…
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Why do minority patients have a much harder time finding a match for bone marrow transplants?
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Contrary to some popular beliefs, today’s British population does not descend from one Anglo-Saxon heritage.
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Even though I was excited to receive my results, I knew that the outcome wouldn’t dramatically change who I was. Whatever 23andMe had in store, my upbringing is already set in stone.