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
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- 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: Campus Life
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Room For Debate: The ‘Two or More Races’ Dilemma The New York Times 2011-02-13 In Room for Debate, The New York Times invites knowledgeable outside contributors to discuss news events and other timely issues. Introduction An article in a Times series on the growing mixed-race population in the United States describes a debate over new…
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US, MSU see increase in multiracial students The State News East Lansing, Michigan 2011-02-02 Emily Wilkins They call her “blackbean” – half black, half Mexican. It’s a nickname embraced by Lynette Davidson, a political theory and constitutional democracy and communication sophomore and one of the 710 students at MSU who identifies with two or more…
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Patterns of Situational Identity Among Biracial and Multiracial College Students The Review of Higher Education Volume 23, Number 4 (Summer 2000) pages 399–420 E-ISSN: 1090-7009, Print ISSN: 0162-5748 DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2000.0019 Kristen A. Renn, Associate Professor of Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Michigan State University Using qualitative grounded theory framed by postmodern racial identity theory, the…
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Mixed emotions: The multiracial student experience at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley News University of California, Berkeley 2005-03-07 Bonnie Azab Powell, NewsCenter BERKELEY – “What are you?” That’s the question Robert Allen, adjunct professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, writes on the chalkboard when students first file in for his “People…
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Student director tackles ‘mixed race’ issues Daily Titan California State University, Fullerton 2009-05-17 Sean Belk From hapa to mestizo to mulatto, ‘Half ‘n’ Half’ acts out stories and history of miscegenation. Bright colorful faces peered through shadows of the low-lit set. The multi-cultural group of student actors then formed a circle, surrounding an infant, and…
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CU group promoting multiracial experience wins ’02 Perkins Prize The Cornell Chronicle Cornell University 2002-04-02 A Cornell campus organization that promotes and celebrates the multiracial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages,…