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: Politics/Public Policy
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Contractors with white ancestry were awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in government contracts reserved for minorities by making unsubstantiated claims to being Native American, a Times investigation found. To qualify for the minority contracting programs, they used membership in unrecognized Cherokee groups that federally recognized tribes and Native American experts consider illegitimate
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Kamala Harris, Birtherism, Race and the Unscrupulous, Sinister Antics of the Far Right! Medium 2019-07-04 Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies and Gender Studies East Tennessee State University Now that she has emerged as a serious contender for the 2020 democratic nomination for president, Kamala Harris has come under attack from a number…
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Dante de Blasio, whose giant Afro was featured in his father’s bid for New York City mayor, is playing a role in his presidential campaign.
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Birtherism raises its ugly head, only to be lopped off by Harris supporters and rivals
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My work is about the first two generations of Chinese and Japanese Americans who married whites in the U.S. West between 1880 and 1954.
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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 question which is having some discussion here is: Can a mulatto whose father was a white man register under the ‘grandfather clause?’”