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: Census/Demographics
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For most of our history, the U.S. government treated biracial Americans as if we didn’t even exist, but my family has stories to tell.
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New data released in October by Statistics Canada reveals a surprising spike in Canadians identifying as Métis.
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Tanya Katerí Hernández writes: The presence of fluid mixed-race racial identities within allegations of employment discrimination leads some legal commentators to conclude that civil rights laws are in urgent need of reform.
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Older white Americans still hold most of the economic and political power in the US. But the great ethnic diversity of younger generations means that change is coming.
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Add something else to the list of things that seem simple but are actually complicated – the way someone reports their race or ethnicity.