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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In the future, we will be…: Priyank Shah at TEDx Columbus TEDx Columbus 2012-10-14 Priyank Shah, Demographer, Futurist, Teacher Dr. Shah is a demographer and a very enthusiastic one. He’ll begin our day with baseline picture of where we are headed as a population so we will better understand ourselves as a society. But no…
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Census Bureau Establishes National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations United States Census Bureau News Release CB12-195 2012-10-12 The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the establishment of the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations. The Census Bureau has also named the committee’s members and leadership. The National Advisory Committee will…
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Let’s Not Be Boxed in by Color / Other Americans Help Break Down Racial Barriers “Let’s Not Be Boxed in by Color” The Washington Post, Outlook 1997-06-08 pages C3 “Other Americans Help Break Down Racial Barriers” International Herald Tribune 1997-06-10 page 9 Amitai Etzioni, University Professor and Professor of International Affairs; Director, Institute for Communitarian…
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Classifying racial and ethnic group data in the United States: the politics of negotiation and accommodation Journal of Government Information Volume 27, Issue 2 (March-April 2000) pages 129–156 DOI: 10.1016/S1352-0237(00)00131-3 Alice Robbin, Associate Professor of Library and Information Science Indiana University, Bloomington “Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity,” formerly…
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2010 Census Shows Multiple-Race Population Grew Faster Than Single-Race Population United States Census Bureau New Releases News Release: CB12-182 2012-09-27 The 2010 Census showed that people who reported multiple races grew by a larger percentage than those reporting a single race. According to the 2010 Census brief The Two or More Races Population: 2010, the…
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The reawakening of Afro-Argentine culture Global Post 2009-08-30 Anil Mundra Descendants of slaves are starting to assert their identity but it’s not easy in South America’s whitest country. BUENOS AIRES — “Liberty has no color” read the signs held outside a Buenos Aires city courthouse. “Arrested for having the wrong face,” and “Suspected of an…
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Mixed-race teen in the middle: who will she choose? Tampa Bay Times St. Petersburg, Florida 2012-09-23 Leonora LaPeter Anton, Times Staff Writer Her dark eyes scanned the fluorescent-lit lunchroom, locking onto her friends in the center of the chaos. Her thoughts sprayed in many directions: the upcoming eighth-grade formal, a surprisingly bad grade she recently…