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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Growing Up White Until a Family Secret Revealed She Was Not The Root 2015-03-22 Genetta M. Adams, Senior Editor In the documentary Little White Lie, filmmaker Lacey Schwartz spins a compelling story about embracing her racial identity. Lacey Schwartz grew up as a white, Jewish girl in the predominantly white community of Woodstock, N.Y., raised…
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Meet Elizabeth Liang from Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey Culture Shock Toolbox 2015-03-23 H. E. Rybol Elizabeth acts on stage, film, and television. A graduate of Wesleyan (after transferring from Wellesley), she is a published essayist (“Checked Baggage: Writing Unpacked,” “Transforming Three Sisters”) and has a column about creative adult TCKs at TheDisplacedNation.com. She is also…
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Navigating Through my Tamil-Filipino World: An Account of a Mixed First Generation Kid Tamil Culture 2014-01-30 Shanelle Kandiah Throughout my life, every time I have come to meet someone for the first time, I seem to always be asked about my ethnicity. Over the course of a conversation with someone, I can even anticipate the…
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Little White Lie Independent Lens Public Broadcasting Service Monday, 2015-03-23, 22:00 EDT (21:00 CDT) (check schedule here) Little White Lie tells Lacey Schwartz’s story of growing up in a typical upper-middle-class Jewish household in Woodstock, NY, with loving parents and a strong sense of her Jewish identity — despite the open questions from those around…
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Family Secret And Cultural Identity Revealed In ‘Little White Lie’ Morning Edition National Public Radio 2015-03-23 Michele Norris, Host and Special Correspondent Filmmaker Lacey Schwartz grew up in a white Jewish family in Woodstock, New York, believing she was white. Schwartz learns she’s bi-racial as she prepares to attend college. Listen to the story here.…
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A young Jewish woman, raised as white, learns she’s not Religion News Service 2015-03-13 Lauren Markoe, National Reporter WASHINGTON (RNS) The Schwartz‘s seemed like any other Jewish family in Woodstock, N.Y., except for one thing: mom and dad were obviously white, and their daughter Lacey was obviously not. That racial disconnect would be easier to…
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What was it like raising three biracial children? WBEZ 91.5 Chicago, Illinois 2015-03-06 Bill Healy Rosa Ramirez was in basic training in the Army, when she came across a girl in her barracks with red hair and blue eyes. “What kind of blood do you have?” Ramirez asked her. “Do you see the world blue?”…
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Color Erases, Color Paints Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life 2015-03-10 Isaiah Rothstein Each day this week, the Scroll will be featuring a post from a writer at JN Magazine—short for “Jewnited Nations”—a website “here to change the monochromatic monolithic perception of Judaism.” Each post has been commissioned and edited by MaNishtana, the pseudonym…