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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The purpose of this dissertation was to examine the relationship between ethnic and racial identity and mental health across the lifespan in Hawaiʻi
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Widespread sexual exploitation before the Civil War strongly influenced the genetic make-up of essentially all African Americans alive today.
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The author of “Superior: The Return of Race Science” knows this from firsthand experience
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Saini is now an award-winning science journalist, often reporting on the intersection of science, race and gender. Her latest book, “Superior: The Return of Race Science,” tracks the history and ideology of race science up to its current resurgence.
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…science journalist Angela Saini’s third book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, makes the compelling case that scientific racism is as prevalent as it has ever been, and explores the way such backward beliefs have continued to evolve and persist.
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A Q&A with Angela Saini
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A new book explores how racist biases continue to maintain a foothold in research today