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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Market-style reforms widen racial divide in Cuba Reuters 2014-09-02 (Reuters) – Cuba’s experiment with free-market reforms has unintentionally widened the communist-led island’s racial divide and allowed white Cubans to regain some of the economic advantages built up over centuries. Under President Raúl Castro, who took over from his brother Fidel Castro in 2008, Cuba has…
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The Michael Brown Tragedy: A Christian of Color Perspective Jesus for Revolutionaries: A Blog About Race, Social Justice, and Christianity 2014-08-25 Robert Chao Romero, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies and Asian American Studies University of California, Los Angeles Today is the funeral of Michael Brown. Please join me in praying for comfort for his family.…
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I’m black, my brother’s white … and he’s a cop who shot a black man on duty The Guardian 204-08-25 Zach Stafford, Writer Chicago, Illinois I never thought that my brother would be one of those police officers. He was supposed to be different because of me My white brother loved black people more than…
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Race and the Genetic Revolution: Science, Myth and Culture [Hauskeller Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 37, Issue 10, 2014 Special Issue: Ethnic and Racial Studies Review pages 1946-1948 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2013.870348 Christine Hauskeller, Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Philosophy and Anthropology University of Exeter, United Kingdom Race and the genetic revolution: science, myth and culture, edited…
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Are There Really Just Five Racial Groups? Slate 2012-05-17 Brian Palmer, Chief Explainer How the government developed its racial-classification system. For the first time in history, more than half of American children under the age of 1 are members of a minority group, according to figures released Wednesday by the Census Bureau. Everyone is familiar…