Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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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More Hawaii residents identify as mixed race USA Today 2011-02-24 William M. Welch Hawaii, the nation’s most ethnically diverse state, has seen a big increase in residents identifying themselves as being of mixed race, according to Census data released Thursday. Among adults 18 and older, those saying they are of two or more races rose…
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The Racial Identification of Biracial Children with One Asian Parent: Evidence from the 1990 Census No. 96-370 Population Studies Center Research Report Series Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan August 1996 Yu Xie, Otis Dudley Duncan Distinguished University Professor of Sociology University of Michigan Kimberly A. Goyette, Associate Professor of Sociology Temple University…
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Counting by Race Can Throw Off Some Numbers The New York Times 2009-02-11 Susan Saulny, National Correspondent Race Remixed: The Pigeonhole Problem. Articles in this series explore the growing number of mixed-race Americans. The federal Department of Education would categorize Michelle López-Mullins—a university student who is of Peruvian, Chinese, Irish, Shawnee and Cherokee descent—as “Hispanic.”…
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This is who I am: Defining mixed-race identity The Seattle Times 2008-09-28 Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times staff The story of race in the U.S. is changing, and so is the way many of us identify ourselves. That’s especially true in the Seattle area, which has a higher concentration of mixed-race people than any other metro…
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US, MSU see increase in multiracial students The State News East Lansing, Michigan 2011-02-02 Emily Wilkins They call her “blackbean” – half black, half Mexican. It’s a nickname embraced by Lynette Davidson, a political theory and constitutional democracy and communication sophomore and one of the 710 students at MSU who identifies with two or more…