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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I’m Middle Eastern And White, And Those Are Not The Same Thing xoJane 2015-06-08 Erica Pishdadian It’s time to stop the confusion and give Middle Eastern and North African people our own racial classification. I recently moved to New York City, and in between my two favorite hobbies (climbing up to my fifth floor apartment…
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The Myth of a White Minority 2015-06-11 Richard Alba, Distinguished Professor of Sociology City University of New York Graduate Center IN 2012, the Census Bureau announced that nonwhite births exceeded white births for the first time. In 2013, it noted that more whites were dying than were being born. In March, it projected that non-Hispanic…
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Multiracial in America Pew Research Center Washington, D.C. 2015-06-11 155 pages Principal Researchers Kim Parker, Director of Social Trends Research Rich Morin, Senior Editor Juliana Menasce Horowitz, Associate Director, Research Mark Hugo Lopez, Director of Hispanic Research Research Team Anna Brown, Research Assistant D’Vera Cohn, Senior Writer Richard Fry, Senior Researcher Ana Gonzalez-Barrera, Research Associate…
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In Puerto Rico, a push to revive indigenous culture The Associated Press 2015-04-20 Anica Coto SAN LORENZO, Puerto Rico (AP) — In Puerto Rico’s misty, bamboo-studded mountains, elementary school students are studying a nearly extinct language, beating on drums and growing native crops like cassava and sweet potato as they learn about the indigenous people…
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White Parents, Becoming a Little Less White Motherlode: Living the Family Dynamic The New York Times 2015-04-15 Jack Cheng Amy Crosson Former Gov. Jeb Bush made news recently because he checked “Hispanic” on a voter registration form. This is obviously ridiculous from a scion of the Bush family (and Mr. Bush has said he made…