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
- 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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Watch This Poet Break Down His Afro-Latino Identity Black Youth Project 2015-11-03 Jenn M. Jackson, Managing Editor Gabriel Ramirez’s poem, “On Realizing I Am Black,” performed at the 2015 National Poetry Slam [2015-08-10 to 2015-08-15] in Oakland, CA is an eloquent oration on personhood at the margins. There is nothing more beautiful than authenticity. But, in…
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Identity Does Not Define Experiences The Oberlin Review Oberlin, Ohio 2015-04-24 Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura, College senior To the Editors: My name is Taiyo Scanlon-Kimura. I take he, him and his. I am a mixed-race Japanese American. I am cisgender and heterosexual; I am from Ohio and a strictly middle-class background. (I received a federal Pell Grant…
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Hapa-Palooza 2015 | Talking Hapa With Canadian Broadcaster Margaret Gallager Schema Magazine 2015-09-17 Marissa Willcox Hapa-palooza is here! Celebrating what Vancouver does best: mixed-heritage and blended cultural identities. Drawing from the Hawaiian origin of the word “hapa” (used by many people in Canada and U.S. who identify as being of mixed-heritage) Vancouver is a perfect…
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Diversity and Multiracial Voices Mount Holyoke Radix South Hadley, Massachusetts 2015-11-10 Sonia Mohammadzadah ’18, Contributing Writer ***Please note: my use of the term “cultural org” includes both cultural orgs associated with cultural houses and those that are not. As someone who identifies as biracial, I’m never quite sure where I stand or what my role…
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Dolly Fernandez: Growing up in a love-filled, mixed-race family in the anti-miscegenation era The FilAm: A Magazine for Filipino Americans in New York 2015-11-20 Cristina DC Pastor, Founding Editor “It was a scandal, but it was also a happy marriage. They just had so much fun together.” Dolores ‘Dolly’ Fernandez, the daughter of a Filipino…
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Mixed-race descendant of Nazi murderer tells of life San Diego Jewish World 2015-11-18 David Strom, Professor Emeritus of Education San Diego State University, San Diego, California My Grandfather Would have Shot Me [Amon: Mein Großvater hätte mich erschossen], by Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair. The Experiment, Pub. 2015, 221pp SAN DIEGO — At the age…
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Brown: The Last Discovery of America Penguin Books 2012 256 Pages Paperback ISBN: 9780142000793 eBook ISBN: 9781101161500 Richard Rodriguez In his dazzling new memoir, Richard Rodriguez reflects on the color brown and the meaning of Hispanics to the life of America today. Rodriguez argues that America has been brown since its inception-since the moment the…
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My Face is a Face of Asian America Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2015-11-14 Candace Kita “Blending in” has never been my strong suit. As a generally shy and rather bookish individual, I have always wished that I could more naturally fit seamlessly into my surroundings. However, my inability to blend into established…