Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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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Malia Bouattia’s tactics will define her leadership of NUS Wonkhe: Higher education: policy, people and politics. London, England, United Kingdom 2016-04-26 Debbie McVitty, Director of Policy University of Bedfordshire Last week’s election of Malia Bouattia as the next President of the National Union of Students (NUS) has split the commentariat, with some celebrating the fact…
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Beyond Black and White: Biracial Attitudes in Contemporary U.S. Politics American Political Science Review Volume 110 / Issue 01 / February 2016 pages 52-67 DOI: 10.1017/S0003055415000556 Lauren D. Davenport, Assistant Professor of Political Science Stanford University The 2000 U.S. census was the first in which respondents were permitted to self-identify with more than one race.…
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‘Our schools are failing mixed raced children’ The Voice London, England, United Kingdom 2016-04-02 Dinah Moreley Stereotypical expectations that this group have ‘confused identities’ often mean they experience racism from teachers and fellow pupils A REPORT by People in Harmony, (PIH) the national charity for mixed race people and families has highlighted the experience of…
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Mixed-race indigenous people should get benefits extended to those with Indian status, Canadian court rules The Los Angeles Times 2016-04-14 Christopher Guly For decades in Canada, people of mixed indigenous and European ancestry didn’t qualify for “Indian” status and were denied a host of benefits granted to other First Nations people, including government funding, free…