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: Autobiography
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Eduardo Baptista talks about identity at the crossroads of swearing in Portuguese, struggling with Korean fluency, and sounding like a History student in English
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Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide, a Plea For Help From the Multiracial Community Multiracial Media: The Voice of the Multiracial Community 2017-04-23 Sarah Ratliff Bryony Sutherland Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide Eighten months ago I published my first non-ghostwritten book called Being Biracial: Where Our Secret Worlds Collide. Being Biracial is an…
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Stealth sisterhood: I look white, but I’m also black. And I don’t hate Rachel Dolezal Salon 2017-04-23 Alli Joseph A photo of the author with her mother. I am white, I am black, I am Native American. And I know what it’s like for people not to see all of who I am On a…
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I am a multiracial American; my mother is Okinawan, my father is German and Australian. My grandparents came from four different continents. I identify as both Asian and Caucasian, and although I am often identified on the outside as not quite white and not quite “ethnic,” I easily pass for white in a world obsessed…
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In “Are You Mixed?”, Sonia Janis explores the spaces in-between race and place from the perspective of an educator who is multi-racial.
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As a Jew of color, your identity and loyalty are constantly questioned.
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I was in third grade when I realized I was biracial. “Please Select One,” I was instructed as I stared down at the race identity section of the STAR test, the tip of my pencil hovering back and forth over circles marked “Asian” and “White.”
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At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf—and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather was Amon Goeth, the vicious Nazi commandant depicted in Schindler’s List. Reviled as the “butcher of Płaszów,” Goeth was executed in 1946. The more Teege learned about him, the more certain she became: If her…