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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Census Chief Apologizes for ‘Negro’ Category The New York Times 2010-03-26 Kate Phillips When Robert Groves, the director of the Census Bureau, appeared on C-Span’s “Washington Journal” program Friday morning, he found himself having to defend the racial designations on the census form… Read the entire article here.
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Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS) consists of fifty-nine high-precision samples of the American population drawn from fifteen federal censuses, from the American Community Surveys of 2000-2007, and from the Puerto Rican Community Surveys of 2005-2007. Some of these samples have existed for years, and others were created…
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Contentious Legacies: Mixed-Race in the Age of Colorblindess and Beyond University of Illinois, Urbana-Champiagn Asian American Cultural Center 2010-03-30 12:00 CDT (Local Time) Tessa Winklemann This presentation is about Mixed Race issues, the 2010 Census, and the history of the construction of race and the census in the United States. For more information, click here.
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In multiracial America, the census puts us in a box Washington Post 2010-03-21 Susan Straight, Professor of Creative Writing University of California, Riverside I received the census form in the mail last week, and I was ready. A vaguely admonitory letter from the Census Bureau had arrived the week before, urging me to fill out…
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How to really be accurate on ‘race’ on the Census The American Thinker 2010-03-17 James Lewis Not many people like to fill in the “race” category on the Census, because we know perfectly well that it comes from the Left, which has found another way to slice and dice the American people, to set us…
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Count Yourself In California: The Census on Multiracial ID’s Spot.Us 2010-03-18 Denise L. Poon When she fills out her 2010 Census form this week, Mei-Ling Malone is looking forward to answering Question #9 ― “the race question.” She’s adamant about documenting her multiracial background. Malone, who studied multiracial politics at UC [University of California] Irvine and…