Mixed Race Studies

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  • Number of Interracial Marriages, Multiracial Americans Growing Rapidly

    LOS ANGELES — Delia Douglas’ experience growing up has been different from the rest of her schoolmates. “In any of the storybooks that I was reading growing up, I remember the families always looked a certain way. Both parents matched,” she said. “Even it seemed like in many of the storylines that were about animal families,…

  • The invention of ‘Hispanics’ created a political force of 27 million strong

    Before 1970, they were considered white by the government On a California morning in 1969, as dawn outlined the nearby mountain ridges in purple, a pickup truck bounced down a dirt road in the Coachella Valley, filled with activists urging farmhands still picking grapes to join a statewide strike for higher wages. “These workers are…

  • ARMOR: Biracial in the Deep South – a documentary about biracial life in the American South with filmmaker Sarah Gambles, Ep. 107

    Ep. 107: Sarah Gambles is a Hawaiian-born, Biracial (Black-White), filmmaker with family ties in her current home state of Alabama.  After years of teaching, Sarah returned to her creative roots, launching her own production company, SarahFinah Films.  Under the umbrella of that production company, she has now created a new film ARMOR: Biracial in the Deep…

  • What Biracial People Know

    After the nation’s first black president, we now have a white president with the whitest and malest cabinet since Ronald Reagan’s. His administration immediately made it a priority to deport undocumented immigrants and to deny people from certain Muslim-majority nations entry into the United States, decisions that caused tremendous blowback.

  • Who counts as black?

    This debate over “who counts” has created somewhat of an identity crisis in the black community, exposing a divide between those who think being black should be based on physical looks, and those who think being black is more than looks.

  • Why are some black Africans considered white Americans?

    I always knew I was black. My childhood was the scent of coconut oil hair cream and the taste of bean pie after Friday prayers in a Bilalian mosque on Chicago’s south side. I knew the words to “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” and called Harold Washington my mayor, even though I lived in the suburbs…

  • Mixed race and proud: LA’s multi-heritage kids navigate their identity

    Mixed race and proud: LA’s multi-heritage kids navigate their identity 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2017-01-15 Deepa Fernandes Soleil Simone Haight loves saying all three of her names, running them together with sheer glee in her voice. She also proudly declares that she is five years old, that she has curly hair…

  • 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…

  • On the Precipice of a “Majority-Minority” America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans’ Political Ideology

    On the Precipice of a “Majority-Minority” America: Perceived Status Threat From the Racial Demographic Shift Affects White Americans’ Political Ideology Psychological Science Volume 25, Issue 6 (2014-06-01) pages 1189-1197 DOI: 10.1177/0956797614527113 Maureen A. Craig, Assistant Professor of Psychology New York University Jennifer A. Richeson, Philip R. Allen Professor of Psychology Yale University The U.S. Census…

  • 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…