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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Little White Lie,’ Lacey Schwartz’s Film About Self-Discovery
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I’m Not White, But Nobody Can Ever Tell What Race I Am xoJane.com 2014-07-25 Casey Walker Emerson College, Boston, Massachusetts I have to go through a “coming out” moment in every new relationship to explain my ethnicity. My skin is pale olive in the winter and a soft brown in the summer, and my hair…
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Little White Lie OTB Productions LLC 2013 66 minutes Lacey Schwartz, Producer/Director Mehret Mandefro, Producer James Adolphus, Co-Director What defines our identity, our family of origin or the family that raises us? How do we come to terms with the sins and mistakes of our parents? Lacey discovers that answering those questions means understanding her…
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Not So Black and White Tree Spirit Publishing 2012 210 pages 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0615568249 Alexis Wilson Mixed marriage, abandonment, a mother’s secret, same sex parents, Broadway, the Ballet, and AIDS all make up a multi-colored tapestry of this author’s valiant journey towards a strong and clear passage; leaving the…
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When Dad Wiped Away My Tears: Accepting a Child’s Vulnerability Psychology Today 2014-06-15 Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Ed.D. Stanford University I thought summer camp would be endless fun. My two best friends were going and I wanted to go with them so badly I asked my dad to lie about my age so I could get in.…
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‘Good Hair’: A Cape Verdean Struggles With Her Racial Identity The Chronicle of Higher Education 2014-05-27 Ana Sofia De Brito Ana Sofia De Brito graduated from Dartmouth College in 2012 with a major in Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean studies. This essay is adapted from a chapter in the book Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell…
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Geraldo Rivera: On Being Jew-Rican, A Rare Mixed Breed Fox News Latino 2014-05-16 Geraldo Rivero, Senior Correspondent Fox News (From my speech May 14, 2014 at The Jewish Federation of Northern New Jersey’s Women’s Philanthropy luncheon) I’d like to talk about being Jewish in a Puerto Rican family by telling you the story of my…
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Mixed Feelings North by Northwestern Northwestern University’s leading independent online publication Evanston, Illinois 2014-05-22 Sarah Turbin, Class 0f 2016 Medill School of Journalism There’s no question quite like it. “What are you?” has trailed behind me my whole life, tapping me on the shoulder with a different lilt to its tone each time: curious, doubtful,…
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This is my story (Part 1) briankamanzi 2014-03-14 Brian Kamanzi My name is Brian, in 1990 I was born to a South African Indian mother and a Ugandan father in Mthatha, a small city located in the hilly region of what is still often referred to as the Transkei in the heart of the Eastern…