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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- 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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Inside Facebook’s Totally Adorable, Kind of Racist Mixed Race Baby Community Broadly 2016-06-21 Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff Thousands of people have signed up to Instagram and Facebook communities to celebrate the beauty of multiracial children. But not everyone is convinced that they have the purest intentions at heart. In a world plagued by racism and prejudice, some…
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Filipino Americans: Blending Cultures, Redefining Race Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-05-24 Renee Montagne, Host There are over 3 million people of Filipino heritage living in the U.S., and many say they relate better to Latino Americans than other Asian American groups. In part, that can be traced to the history…
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Spotlight: Beneath Japan’s polite veneer lies secret codes of racial hatred aimed at minorities, foreigners China.org.cn (China Internet Information Center) State Council Information Office and the China International Publishing Group (CIPG), Beijing, China 2016-05-21 Xinhua News Agency Is Japan a gentle nation? For many people who have little knowledge about the island country or just…
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Brown Is the New White: How the Demographic Revolution Has Created a New American Majority The New Press January 2016 272 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-62097-115-4 Steve Phillips A New York Times bestseller, Brown Is the New White takes an unvarnished look at the history of whites and people of color…
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“One Drop of Love”: The Keynote Performance for the Mixed Heritage Conference at UCLA University of California, Los Angeles James West Alumni Center 325 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles, California 90095 Saturday, 2016-04-30 14:30-16:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for some or all of this enlightening and affirming conference. One Drop will start at 2:30 pm…
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Beyond Black and White: Biracial Attitudes in Contemporary U.S. Politics American Political Science Review Volume 110 / Issue 01 / February 2016 pages 52-67 DOI: 10.1017/S0003055415000556 Lauren D. Davenport, Assistant Professor of Political Science Stanford University The 2000 U.S. census was the first in which respondents were permitted to self-identify with more than one race.…