Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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: Autobiography
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Being mixed-race is a blessing in disguise.
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I am pleased to announce an open submission call for my forthcoming anthology from New York University Press, “SHADES OF PREJUDICE,” a collection of essays written by Asian American women about their personal experiences with colorism.
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Fifteen writers reveal their diverse experiences with passing, including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic.
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Emancipation Day based on story of Grady’s father who kept black heritage secret for 50 years
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I was the only girl on my high school’s football team — but I can no longer support the sport.
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Thanks to my parents transplanting me often from one ethnic mix to another, I’ve become something of a code-switching connoisseur.
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A white identity was constructed for me 25 years ago and unravelling it feels like a Sisyphean task
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As a woman of colour, having to prove my “blackness” should never be something on my list of things to accomplish. Like other marginalized people, I work in a mostly white world, which for me happens to be the Canadian literary community.