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: Judaism
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The Family Flamboyant: Race Politics, Queer Families, Jewish Lives SUNY Press October 2006 244 pages Hardback ISBN10: 0-7914-6893-3; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6893-7 Paperback ISBN10: 0-7914-6894-1; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6894-4 eBook ISBN10: 0-7914-8106-9; ISBN13: 978-0-7914-8106-6 Marla Brettschneider, Professor of Political Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Political Science & Women’s Studies University of New Hampshire Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Gay/Lesbian…
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Intermarriage and Multicultural Families My Jewish Learning 2012-12-13 Ruth Abusch-Magder, Rabbi-in-Residence Be’chol Lashon, San Francisco, California Like it or not, intermarriage is a fact in Jewish life. And for the most part the Jewish community has learned to live with it. Sure, different movements deal with it differently. Sure, some congregations are more adept and…
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The White Negress: Literature, Minstrelsy, and the Black-Jewish Imaginary (review) Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Volume 31, Number 1, Fall 2012 pages 206-208 DOI: 10.1353/sho.2012.0123 Andrea Levine George Washington University This volume’s title signals its central critical intervention, a challenge to the masculine biases that have shaped studies of minstrelsy and of cross-racial…
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A riveting memoir of cultural crossfire
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In Judaism, one’s mother must be Jewish in order to be ‘officially recognized’ as Jewish. Because it was my father who was Jewish, I didn’t count. And although I was born in Japan, I was not granted citizenship because only my mother was Japanese. From both sides, stranded. When I was 18, I decided to…
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Mixed-race Jewish children locate their communal comfort zone The Jewish Chronicle Online 2009-11-12 Sue Fishkoff Dafna Wu, a 48-year-old San Francisco nurse, was born to a Jewish mother and Chinese father. She was raised Jewish but looks Asian, as does her daughter, nine-year-old Amalia, whose father was also Chinese. The Hebrew School Amalia attends is…
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Jewish multiracial families grow in numbers and commitment The Denver Post Denver, Colorado 2012-09-25 Electa Draper Three Denver mothers heading multiracial families are seeking to build on what it means to live in Jewish community. The community is changing. It’s perhaps a surprising slice of demography that shows that 16 percent of metro Denver Jewish…
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Multiracial Jews Moving Beyond Isolation The Jewish Week 2012-06-12 Julie Wiener, Associate Editor Now 12 percent of the community, racially diverse Jewish households making their way into mainstream — but still less ‘engaged’ than others. When Rabbi/Cantor Angela Buchdahl was growing up — the daughter of a white Jewish father and a Korean-American mother —…