Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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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Students manage social lives amidst diversity The Dartmouth Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 2010-11-11 Marina Villeneuve, The Dartmouth Staff Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series investigating race at the College. The experiences and opinions expressed are the views of individual students, and should not be considered representative of wider communities.…
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Mixed: A Mixed Heritage Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-11-09 Nicholas Greitzer America has always been considered a melting pot – a melting pot of ideas, of ethnicities, of religions, of experiences and of people. In the 2000 census, for example, this miscegenation resulted in more than 6.8 million Americans self-identifying as multiracial.…
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Profiles: Samuel Hickson – The Change Agent State University of New York, Brockport 2010-10-28 BS in Sociology, ’10 “My understanding of what is important in life began with my family, who taught me about cultural diversity and having respect for people who are different from me.” Samuel Hickson, a former McNair student, studied the processes…
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The designs for cultural programs on most campuses seem to imply that students possess mono-cultural identities. However, with the increase in bi-racial and multi-racial students on campus, it is time for student affairs leaders to question the design for these programs.
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Letter to the Editor: Multi-ethnic clubs benefit community Daily Bruin University of California, Los Angeles 2010-10-18 Thomas Lopez, Alumnus University of California, Berkeley What’s in a name? Answering that question can be difficult for some multiracial students. So often throughout history, names have been given for us, many of them pejorative, that it becomes difficult…
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CeCe Ridder is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Higher Education Administration at The University of Texas at Austin and is recruiting University of Texas at Austin students for a research study about Black-White Multiracial college students. She is seeking registered students at UT Austin in the third or fourth year of study and have one parent…
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Clusters of racial identity among Black/White biracial college students: A mixed method investigation University of Michigan August 2006 197 pages Publication ID: AAT 3208292 Yvette C. Clinton A dissertation submitted in partial fulfullment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Psychology) in the University of Michigan Historically, in the United States Black/White…
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Univ. changes categories for reporting race, ethnicity Diamondback Online The University of Maryland’s Independent Daily Student Newspaper 2010-10-11 Leyla Korkut Latest data expected to reflect true demographic makeup, but may reduce minority funding The university will release new demographic data this week that administrators said will more accurately convey the diversity of this university. But…
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Builders of a Racial Bridge: Biracial College Students The Journal of Pedagogy Pluralism & Practice Lesley University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Issue 11 (Fall 2006) Atina Andrea White This study addresses issues surrounding Black/White biracial students in a multiracial student run organization at a diverse liberal arts college in Massachusetts. The impact of the United States race…