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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So, What Are You?: A Multiracial Perspective On Identity Jossle Magazine 2014-11-18 Leilani Stacy Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts “So, what are you?” In a word, “Wasian,” or more accurately, “Multiracial.” Specifically, I’m a quarter Japanese, a “mutt” of white—Scottish, Irish, Pennsylvania Dutch, French, English, German, Danish—and probably a little Native American (don’t worry, I didn’t…
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Getting in Touch with Our “Identity” Multiracial Identity Program Portland State University 2015-01-13 through 2015-01-15 Multicultural Center 1825 SW Broadway Smith Memorial Student Union, Suite 228 Portland, Oregon 97201 Wednesday, 2015-01-14, 12:00-13:30 PST (Local Time) The multiple types of racial identities on campus varies. Let’s come together and discuss our identities to break barriers and…
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Multiracial Identity Program – Panel Discussion Multiracial Identity Program Portland State University 2015-01-13 through 2015-01-15 Multicultural Center 1825 SW Broadway Smith Memorial Student Union, Suite 228 Portland, Oregon 97201 Tuesday, 2015-01-13, 16:00-18:00 PST (Local Time) Kickstarting the Multiracial Identity Program, this panel will consist of individuals who identity as multiracial and/or multiethnic. Come together for…
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Revealing Racial Purity Ideology: Fear of Black–White Intimacy as a Framework for Understanding School Discipline in Post-Brown Schools Educational Administration Quarterly Volume 50, Number 5 (December 2014) pages 783-795 DOI: 10.1177/0013161X14549958 Decoteau J. Irby, Assistant Professor School of Education University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Purpose: In this article, I explore White racial purity desire as an…
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Multiracial College Students and Institutions of Higher Education Engaged Learning Collection 2013-04-15 Paper 20 18 pages Jacqueline V. Ross Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas The multiracial student population is one of the fastest growing populations in the United States. The growth in students of two or more racial backgrounds is grounds for recognizing and acceptance…
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Anti-intellectualism is taking over the US The Guardian 2012-05-18 Patricia Williams, James L. Dohr Professor of Law Columbia University, New York, New York The rise in academic book bannings and firings is compounded by the US’s growing disregard for scholarship itself Recently, I found out that my work is mentioned in a book that has…
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Conference Recap DePaul Magazine December 2014 (2014-12-16) For the third biennial Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference, hosted at DePaul last month, participants could be heard speaking in British, Finnish, Japanese, Australian and Canadian accents, among others. This medley of voices perfectly encapsulated the theme of this year’s conference, Global Mixed Race. Co-organizers Camilla Fojas, Vincent…
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EMERGE-ing Identities Middle Ground: Exploring the spaces between structures of race, class, gender and nature. 2014-12-17 Kaily Heitz MERGE Mission Statement: “To provide a safe space for people of mixed heritage in which we may discuss issues of multi-ethnic identity and to raise awareness within the Claremont University Consortium community about the multi-ethnic experience.” In…
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In Memoriam: María Elena Martínez-López, 47 University of Southern California News 2014-11-20 Susan Bell, Senior Writer (213) 740-7894 María Elena Martínez-López, associate professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at USC Dornsife and a leading scholar of colonial Latin America has died. She was 47. Martínez-López died at home in Los Angeles, surrounded by…
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Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories ed. by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, Christina Gomez (review) Journal of College Student Development Volume 55, Number 8, November 2014 pages 856-858 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2014.0077 Jessica C. Harris Andrew Garrod, Christina Gómez, and Robert Kilkenny, Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013)…