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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Color, Race, and Genomic Ancestry in Brazil: Dialogues between Anthropology and Genetics Current Anthropology Volume 50, Number 6 (2009) pages 787-819 DOI: 10.1086/644532 Ricardo Ventura Santos, Professor of Biological Anthropology and Public Health Oswaldo Cruz Foundation also Associate professor of Anthropology National Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Peter H. Fry, Professor Federal University of Rio…
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Eugenics and Mongrelization [Letter and Response] The Eugenics Review Volume 32, Number 1 (April 1940) pages 28-30 To the Editor, Eugenics Review SIR, In order that the eugenics movement shall advance successfully, the eugenics organizations must dissociate their endeavours from the widespread propaganda for race amalgamation and mongrelization. There is little wisdom in breeding selectively among…
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Only Skin Deep? The Harm of Being Born a Different Colour to One’s Parents: A (a minor) and B (a minor) by C (their mother and next friend) v A Health and Social Services Trust [2010] NIQB 108; [2011] NICA 28 Medical Law Review Volume 19, Issue 4 (Autumn 2011) pages 657-668 DOI: 10.1093/medlaw/fwr029 Sally…
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Between black and miscegenated population groups: sickle cell anemia and sickle cell trait in Brazil in the 1930s and 1940s História, Ciências, Saúde-Manguinhos Volume 18, Number 2 (April/June 2011) 29 pages DOI: 10.1590/S0104-59702011000200007 Juliana Manzoni Cavalcanti, PhD candidate Graduate Program on History of the Sciences and Health Casa de Oswaldo Cruz/Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Marcos Chor…
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White and mixed-race youths rank high in alcohol, substance abuse Los Angeles Times 2011-11-07 Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times/For the Booster Shots blog The first-ever survey of adolescent alcohol and drug abuse to recognize youths of mixed race or ethnicity has found that such kids hover closest to white adolescents in the rate at which…
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Health Disparities in the Context of Mixed Race: Challenging the Ideology of Race Advances in Nursing Science Volume 28 Number 3 (July/September 2005) Pages 203-211 Cathy J. Tashiro, PhD, RN, Associate Professor of Nursing University of Washington, Tacoma Debates are occurring about the relative contribution of genetic versus social factors to racial health disparities. An…