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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Your Nationalism Can’t Contain Me The Nation 2016-08-25 Aminatta Forna Aminatta Forna. Photo and Illustration by Jonathan Ring. I’ve held three passports and claimed many identities, all at once. I am the future of citizenship. Those of us who call ourselves British and were of age in 1990 will remember the Conservative politician Norman Tebbit…
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What Is Monoracial Privilege? (Hint: If You Are One Race Only You’ve Got It…) Mixed Race Feminist Blog 2016-01-17 Nicola Codner Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom The definition of the word monoracial is to be ‘composed of or involving members of one race only’. Monoracial privilege therefore refers to the advantages and benefits that come with…
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Michaela Angela Davis Strips Down For The “What’s Underneath Project,” Talks Racism, Insecurities Madame Noire 2016-08-22 Brande Victorian, Managing Editor Michaela Angela Davis has long been everything and then some to us, and our opinion of the writer, culture critique, and activist has only skyrocketed after watching her strip down for StyleLikeU’s highly regarded “What’s…
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My Multiracial Identity Isn’t A Party Trick The Establishment 2016-06-16 Natasha Diaz We sat in a diner at 4 a.m. with a stack of chocolate chip pancakes and chicken fingers between us, the only meal that made sense at that time of night. After a while, the food soaked up enough of the alcohol that…
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Richard Pryor’s Daughter Opens Up About The Racism Her Family Faced In Beverly Hills The Huffington Post 2016-08-18 Lisa Capretto The Oprah Winfrey Network “I’m a product of this thing that everyone was against.” When Rain Pryor was born in 1969, her father, Richard Pryor, had already begun transitioning from a relatively mild joke-telling comedian…
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The Memoir of a White-Passing Activist Odyssey 2016-08-16 Haley Arthur My experiences with being mixed race and trying to use my white privilege to help liberate myself and others. “Oh, you’re mixed? Wow, I would never have guessed. Now it all makes sense.” Yes, this is something that has been said to me multiple times,…
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White People, Stop Saying You’re ‘Black On The Inside’ The Establishment 2016-08-15 Natasha Diaz White and Wrong White people are consistent; I’ll give them that. They take Black culture as the blueprint for their fashion, entertainment, music, and new hip terms to enhance their Urban Dictionary posts. They colonize neighborhoods, forcing out people who have…
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“I’m Aboriginal. I’m Just Not The Aboriginal You Expect Me To Me.” // REVIEW OF “Am I Black Enough For You?” By Anita Heiss #AWW2016 A Keyboard and An Open Mind: The Blog of Avid Reader and Writer, Emily Witt 2016-08-15 Emily Witt Title: Am I Black Enough For You? Author: Anita Heiss Genre: Memoir/Non-fiction…
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“If You Is White, You’s Alright. . . .” Stories About Colorism in America Washington University Global Studies Law Review Volume 14, Issue 4: Global Perspectives on Colorism (Symposium Edition) (2015) pages 585-607 Kimberly Jade Norwood, Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law; Professor of African & African American Studies Washington University School of Law, St.…
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Between places and spaces The McGill Daily Montreal, Quebec, Canada 2016-03-21 Francesca Humi Articulating my identity as a mixed-race woman “Who are you?” I am a woman of colour. No, I’m a mixed-race woman of colour. My identity is constantly gendered and racialized. While I have come to be very comfortable with my gender identity…