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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Category: Census/Demographics
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What is “White”? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 In an increasingly diverse country, White Americans are an emerging racial minority. #EmergingUS travelled to one of the Whitest states, Iowa, to ask Iowans what it means to be White in a changing America. Hosted by Jose Antonio Vargas, the founder of #EmergingUS…
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What are you? #EmergingUS: Exploring race, immigration and the emerging American identity 2016-09-26 How do you describe yourself if you’re mixed? “What are you?” is a common question posed to mixed race people, usually preceded by, “Where are you from, from?” In other words: I can’t tell what you are. In this #EmergingUS video, we explore the…
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White House wants to add new racial category for Middle Eastern people USA Today 2016-10-01 Gregory Korte, White House Reporter WASHINGTON — The White House is putting forward a proposal to add a new racial category for people from the Middle East and North Africa under what would be the biggest realignment of federal racial definitions in…
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Mixed race children celebrate their ‘cultural cocktail’ heritage Times Live Johannesburg, South Africa 2016-09-23 Nomahlubi Jordaan, Courts and Law Reporter Food‚ language and tradition of diverse cultures are the essence of the heritage of children born from multiracial families. Mark Andrew Sunners‚ a hip hop producer‚ was born in Liverpool in England from a white…
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Books in Brief: Nonfiction The New York Times 1997-10-26 Douglas A. Sylva The New Colored People: The Mixed-Race Movement in America. By Jon Michael Spencer. New York University, $24.95. Many members of minority groups have long argued that society must recognize and accept an individual’s racial identity for that individual to enjoy feelings of self-esteem.…
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‘Blind Spots’ and Other Problems in Globally Blended Families The Wall Street Journal 2016-08-31 Tracy Slater When the parents are in the majority and the kids are in the minority Perhaps your child, like my two-year-old, and many other children in globally blended families, belongs to the world’s growing mixed-ethnicity population. The World Factbook finds a…
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MTV Decoded Answers The Question ‘Are Hispanic People White?’ Latino Voices The Huffington Post 2016-08-25 Carolina Moreno, Editor It’s complicated. When it comes to matters of race and ethnicity, things can get very complicated. Thankfully, Franchesa Ramsey is always ready to decode everything. In a new episode of MTV News, the host of “Decoded” tackled…
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The changing faces of Singapore: Mixed race families Population.sg 2016-08-23 Karen Tee This little red dot may be tiny, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in diversity. As a society traditionally made up of people of different cultures and backgrounds, coexistence and intermixing is a common theme in our daily experience…
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The face of change: Census racial categories aren’t so black and white The Dallas Morning News 2016-08-19 Jill Cowan, Staff Writer Gloria Fortner, 13, says she values all of the influences of her parentage. Her father, Bruce Fortner, is a black pastor, and her mother, Florencia Velasco Fortner, is a Mexican immigrant who heads a…