Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
- 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
about
Category: Autobiography
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‘My mixed-race has informed my identity in being at the core of a long search to have one at all – the struggle to fit in and be part of the many countries and cultures I had to adapt to throughout my childhood.
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Does a young comedian have to get rid of his whiteness in order to be the color he’s “supposed” to be? Hear Posley weigh in on the modern-day conversation about race from a unique perspective.
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Mixed-race identity has always been in question, and the situation isn’t getting any better.
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She spent her childhood hating and denying her blackness, until a total breakdown in her mid 20s forced her to reassess her identity.
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Despite not believing in the science of race, the daily effects of being perceived as ‘other’ in the UK have been inescapable for Elliott. But he doesn’t view the racist incidences he has experienced as symptomatic of being mixed, he sees them entirely through the prism of blackness.
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“how does one carry oneself in the between?”
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“Miyazaki tells us something about bodies in flux: There is no easy answer; only the conflict, the question.”
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Nina Li Coomes is a Japanese and American writer, performer, producer and artist. She was born in Nagoya, raised in Chicago, and currently resides in Boston, MA. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in EATER, Catapult, The Collapsar, RHINO poetry, and The Margins, among other places.
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In “Color Me In,” debut Author Natasha Díaz pulls from her personal experience to create a powerful, relatable, coming-of-age novel. We can’t wait for this beauty to hit shelves on 8/20/19. Get to know Natasha Díaz in the Q&A below!
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“John, I am not willing to have a conversation with you about racism when I believe you still think we enter this conversation as equals”