Mixed Race Studies

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  • Multi attends fourth annual Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference

    For the first time, Multi, Occidental’s cultural club for multiracial and multicultural students, sent a group of eight members and nonmembers to the 2017 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at the University of Southern California from Feb. 24 to Feb. 26.

  • Gender, race and prejudice

    “As an experimental social psychologist, I’m interested in how people see each other and how that affects their interactions,” says Leigh Wilton, who joined Skidmore’s psychology faculty last year. Her work focuses on race and gender.

  • First Professor of Race and Education appointed at Leeds Beckett

    Leeds Beckett University has appointed the UK’s first Professor of Race and Education, Shirley Anne Tate.

  • Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society

    “Race, Space, and the Law” belongs to a growing field of exploration that spans critical geography, sociology, law, education, and critical race and feminist studies. Writers who share this terrain reject the idea that spaces, and the arrangement of bodies in them, emerge naturally over time. Instead, they look at how spaces are created and…

  • Mixed Race Conference reflects on identity

    When Rudy Guevarra Jr. filled out identification forms in elementary school, he remembers never checking the provided boxes for race. Instead, he drew his own box, and wrote “Mexican-Filipino,” unable to choose one parent’s culture over the other.

  • Student reflects on mixed-race background

    As someone who comes from a blend of different cultures, it can sometimes seem like there isn’t really anywhere I belong. There are no neat boxes that I fit into.

  • Safe space for multiracial students

    Safe space for multiracial students The Sagamore: Brookline High School’s student newspaper Brookline, Massachusetts 2017-02-04 Sofia Reynoso, Staff Writer According to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education’s 2016-2016 data, 7.5 percent of the high school’s student body consists of multiracial students. A new club known as the Multiracial Identifying Community (MIC) is forming…

  • Unmaking Race and Ethnicity: A Reader

    “(Un)Making Race and Ethnicity: A Reader,” edited by Michael O. Emerson, Jenifer L. Bratter, and Sergio Chávez, helps instructors and students connect with primary texts in ways that are informative and interesting, leading to engaging discussions and interactions.

  • Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society

    Mixing It Up: Students, professors reflect on the definition of mixed race in modern society HiLite: Your Source For CHS News Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana 2016-12-12 Allison Li, Calendar/Beats Editor, Feature Reporter Junior Kiki Koniaris is Korean, Pennsylvanian Dutch and Grecian. Despite being of mixed race, Koniaris said she believes race should not define…

  • Leona Amosah, the Founder of SWIRL, Talks Diversity and Identity

    Leona Amosah, the Founder of SWIRL, Talks Diversity and Identity Study Breaks 2016-12-28 Molly Flynn University of North Carolina, Charlotte Celebrating Students with Interracial Legacies (SWIRL) Amosah, a high-achieving senior at UNC Chapel Hill, created the organization to provide a community for students with multiracial and mixed-race identities. While many college students occupy their time…