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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Ethnic minorities: defining ethnicity and race The Scottish Public Health Observatory Ethnic Minorities Last Updated: 2012-03-06 Ethnicity Ethnicity has been defined as: “the social group a person belongs to, and either identifies with or is identified with by others, as a result of a mix of cultural and other factors including language, diet, religion, ancestry…
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Pacific Islanders: a Misclassified People The Chronicle of Higher Education 2013-06-03 Kawika Riley, Chief Executive and Founder Pacific Islander Access Project also adjunct lecturer at George Washington University Imagine that you’re a parent, teacher, or counselor who helped a promising student apply for financial aid. She’s an underrepresented minority, so you encouraged her to apply…
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OMB’s Preliminary Recommendation & an IV Commentary Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1997 Charles Michael Byrd The Office of Management and Budget announced last Wednesday (07-09-97) that Americans could choose more than one racial category on Census and other federal forms but would have no new “multiracial” box to check under new rules the agency proposed.…
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Why the multiracial community must march on July 20! Interracial Voice [1995-2003] July 1996 Charles Michael Byrd Any group needs and deserves to know why someone makes a particular decision, especially when that person asks them to act upon that decision, to contribute and participate. So, too, you need to understand the reasons behind the…
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I’m a kosher burrito, says new mixed-race LA mayor The Jewish Chronicle Online London, England 2013-05-30 Tom Tugend Eric Garcetti, the first Jewish mayor elected by Los Angeles voters, jokingly refers to himself as a “kosher burrito”, the latter word referring to a popular Mexican dish. The son of a Jewish mother and a father…