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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The Men Who Left Were White Gawker 2014-04-12 Josie Duffy There are three things you should know. First: I’m not biracial. “What are you?” people ask, and they expect me to say something thrilling and tribal. I answer, but still they press. “Where are your ancestors from?” people ask, and they want answers that aren’t…
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The Right Words to Say: On Being Read as White The Toast 2015-03-05 Dahlia Grossman-Heinz When you meet me for the first time, you read me as if I were a book. Every idea you have about me and every word I say is part of that book. When you look at me, you will…
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Yo No Sé Que Hablar — I Don’t Know What To Say Teach. Run. Write. English Teacher Running from One Adventure to the Next 2015-03-02 Christina Torres The man sitting behind me at the restaurant last month was speaking Spanish. So was the park worker the other day, which was a surprise. There was the…
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Before I’m even asked my name, people inquire about my race.
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‘I Didn’t Want to Be a Black Man’ Ebony 2014-08-27 Ben O’Keefe A biracial man on why he came to accept his Black identity My name is Ben O’Keefe and I am a “Halfrican American.” It’s a term that one of my fellow mixed-race friends, Adriana, and I have affectionately come to define ourselves by.…
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Been a good while since I put pen to paper. Wait this is awkward, fingers to keyboard rather, 2015 and all that. In any case, I’ve been thinking for a while about something of paramount importance. Me.
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I Became So Exhausted With Proving My South Asian Identity That I Started to Ignore It xoJane 2015-02-24 Anjali Patel The rules of miscegenation were set long before I came along, and my self-determination to “be myself” was not going to change it. A couple of years ago, I was at a rooftop party in…
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Don’t Erase My Race: 4 Affirmations to Remember When Reclaiming Your Multi-Racial Identity Everyday Feminism 2015-02-24 Aliya Khan, Contributing Writer Source: “Navigating Two Different Cultures: A Pakistani Immigrant Girl’s Struggles,” The Brooklyn Ink, (May 16, 2013). I was walking across campus, on my way to class, when a white man stopped me and asked, “Are…
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Box Marked Black + Futility of Nicknames Stage and Studio with Dmae Roberts: The Best of Performing, Literary and Media Arts KBOO 90.7 FM or KBOO.FM Portland, Oregon 2015-02-24, 11:00-12:00 PST (Local Time) Dmae Roberts, Host Dmae spotlights two different writers: Damaris Webb who’s performing her autobiographical play The Box Marked Black about growing up…