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: Social Science
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Race And Radicalism In Puerto Rico: An Interview With Carlos Alamo-Pastrana African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) 2016-08-02 Devyn Spence Benson, Assistant Professor of History and African and African American Studies Louisiana State University This month I interviewed Dr. Carlos Alamo-Pastrana about his new book, Seams of Empire: Race and Radicalism in Puerto Rico and…
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Are Biracial People Better-Looking? New Research On Beauty And Race Medical Daily 2016-08-15 Dana Dovey, Health and Science Reporter The number of interracial marriages are at an all-time high, and the biracial demographic continues to grow. However, our admiration for the “exotic” looks of multicultural people may have consequences. According to a recent study, black…
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Japan’s Under-Researched Visible Minorities: Applying Critical Race Theory to Racialization Dynamics in a Non-White Society Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism (Symposium Edition) (2015) pages 695-723 Debito Arudou Critical Race Theory (CRT), an analytical framework grounded in American legal academia, uncovers power relationships between a racialized enfranchised…
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Racialized Lives: Ethnic Mixing and Mixed Ethnicity in Britain New Left Project 2015-03-06 Karis Campion, Doctoral Researcher and Graduate Teaching Assistant Department of Sociology University of Manchester Racialization has had a deeply personal impact on the lives of people in Britain, but history shows us it can be challenged. In Racism, Class and the Racialized Outsider,…
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Recognizing Race and Ethnicity: Power, Privilege, and Inequality Westview Press 2014-03-11 552 pages Print ISBN: 9780813349305 Ebook ISBN: 9780813349312 Kathleen J. Fitzgerald, Professor of Sociology University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana Despite radical changes over the last century, race remains a central organizing principle in U.S. society, a key arena of inequality, and the…
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Health disparities exist between races in America. These inequalities are cataloged in numerous studies, reports, conferences, articles, seminars, and keynote speeches. Various studies include reports on income, health insurance, cultural differences between patients and their physicians, language barriers, and biological “racial” differences in the discourse of health disparities.
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Studies consistently show that attractiveness is racialized, and in a racial hierarchy that privileges whites at the expense of blacks, white phenotypic characteristics are deemed more attractive than black phenotypic characteristics. This study seeks to examine whether the racialized nature of attractiveness is based on more than just appearance.
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Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder Too Duke Research Blog Duke University 2016-08-10 Eric Ferreri Just the suggestion that an African-American person is of mixed-race heritage makes that person more attractive to others, research from Duke University concludes. This holds true even if the people in question aren’t actually of multiracial heritage, according…
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How White Parents of Black and Multiracial Transracially Adopted Children Approach Racial Exposure and Neighborhood Choice Sociology of Race & Ethnicity Published online before print 2016-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/2332649216661851 Kathryn A. Sweeney, Associate Professor of Sociology Purdue University Northwest, Hammond, Indiana Although past research on racial socialization tends to concentrate on providing cultural knowledge and pride,…
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Inconsistency within Expressed and Observed Racial Identifications: Implications for Mental Health Status Sociological Perspectives Volume 59, Number 3 (September 2016) pages 582-603 DOI: 10.1177/0731121415602133 Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of California, Merced Tony N. Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee The present study extends previous work on distress…