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
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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- 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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Why I Cut My Racist In-Laws Out Of My Life The Establishment 2016-08-02 TaLynn Kel I won’t lie and say that I never had issues with the demographics of my mixed-race marriage. I definitely did. I worried about what my mom would think, and what my dad would say were he alive. I worried about…
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Who Gets To Be ‘Hapa’? Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-08-08 Akemi Johnson Sunset in Waikiki: Tourists sipping mai tais crowded the beachside hotel bar. When the server spotted my friend and me, he seemed to relax. “Ah,” he said, smiling. “Two hapa girls.” He asked if we were from Hawaii.…
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Passing: A Bi-Racial Perspective On Racial Inequality In America Cappuccino Queen 2014-12-03 Hera McLeod In the past few years, it seems like topic of race has gotten to a boiling point many times. Particularly, it seems, as it relates to the American Justice System. When Trayvon Martin was gunned down in February of 2012, I…
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The unique and beautifully written story of one multiracial woman’s journey of acceptance and identity that tackles the fraught topic of race in America.
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In ‘Black Lotus,’ Author Sil Lai Abrams Explores Search For Racial Identity Here & Now WBUR 90.9 FM, Boston, Massachusetts 2016-08-03 Sil Lai Abrams, author of “Black Lotus: A Woman’s Search for Racial Identity.” (Courtesy of Che Williams) When Sil Lai Abrams was a child, her white father and her Chinese mother explained her dark…
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Personal Essay: Yo Soy Boricua Latina 2010-01-18 La La Vazquez A lot of people don’t realize that I’m Latina, which is fine. One thing about being Latina is that there isn’t one look that comes with the territory. I don’t expect people to know my cultural background just by glancing at me. I do, however,…
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Skin Deep Meets Stella Corradi Skin Deep: Race + Culture London, England, United Kingdom 2016-07-08 Anuradha Henriques, Editor East London writer and director Stella Corradi talks fantasy, addiction and her short film “Little Soldier” Stella Corradi, East London born and bred, is the writer and director behind the short film Little Soldier. Loosely influenced by…
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Pensive in Prague: Examining Identity Abroad, June 20th The Harvard Independent 2016-07-24 Gabby Aguirre This is the second in a series of summer blog posts where the author reflects on her time as a first-generation Latina studying abroad in Prague. You can find the first blog post here. The date is June 20th, and I’m…
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The Evolution of My Mixed Race Identity NASPA Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education 2016-07-11 Jeanette Snider, Assistant Director in the Undergraduate Program Robert H. Smith School of Business University of Maryland I recently took an intergroup dialogue-training course for administrators and graduate students interested in leading a related course offered at my university. We…
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My Soul Has Found Its Home Jews of Colour Canada: Building community through identity and faith 2016-07-11 Shirley Gindler-Price Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Out of the 95,000 US Occupation babies born in Germany shortly after WWII, there were approximately 5000 of us, post WWII Afro-German children, so-called Negro mulatto babies, better known as German ‘Brown Babies.’…