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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Are There Really Just Five Racial Groups? Slate 2012-05-17 Brian Palmer, Chief Explainer How the government developed its racial-classification system. For the first time in history, more than half of American children under the age of 1 are members of a minority group, according to figures released Wednesday by the Census Bureau. Everyone is familiar…
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This essay lauds the publication of the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies, then turns immediately to argue that the journal must focus itself on actively becoming the authoritative voice on mixed-race matters, while also speaking out against naive colorblindness and premature declarations of postraciality. This is crucial because the public receives its information on…
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Lobbying for a ‘MENA’ category on U.S. Census USA Today 2014-08-13 Teresa Wiltz, Pew/Stateline Staff Writer For many Americans, checking the right box on the U.S. Census form is a reflexive gesture, whether it’s marking “black,” “white,” “Hispanic,” “Asian,” “American Indian” — or all of the above. But for Americans of Middle Eastern and North…
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Modern Diversity May Prompt US Census Bureau to Seek Better Classification of Hispanics’ Race Latin Post 2014-07-29 Nicole Akoukou Thompson Modernizing data and research methods, as well as offering clear depictions of diversity in the nation’s population, are prominent objectives of the United States Census Bureau. However, the government agency has often missed its mark.…
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Checking new boxes Gender News The Clayman Institute for Gender Research Stanford University 2014-07-23 Ashley Farmer, Postdoctoral Fellow Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research Political Scientist Lauren Davenport reveals the importance of gender in understanding multiracialism Since 2000, the year the U.S. census first allowed respondents to identify as multiracial or multiethnic, the number…
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A surprising number of people change their race and ethnicity from one Census to the next The Washington Post 2014-08-06 Emily Badger, Reporter On Census forms, the option to check a box for racial or ethnic identity presupposes that there’s an unambiguous answer: white, black, American Indian, Hispanic, etc. But identity is a fluid thing.…
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America’s Churning Races: Race and Ethnic Response Changes between Census 2000 and the 2010 Census CARRA Working Paper Series Working Paper #2014-09 Center for Administrative Records Research and Applications United States Census Bureau Washington, D.C. 2014-08-04 56 pages Carolyn A. Liebler University of Minnesota Sonya Rastogi U. S. Census Bureau Leticia E. Fernandez U. S.…
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One Drop of a Father’s Love Biracials Learning About African-American Culture (B.L.A.A.C) Sunday, 2014-06-15 Zebulon Miletsky, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies Stony Brook University, State University of New York This week I had the pleasure of attending a one-woman show by Television and Film actress, Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni, called “One Drop of Love” a multimedia…