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: Family/Parenting
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Mixed-race children are not ambassadors for anti-racism Parent24 (News24) South Africa 2016-01-21 Aneshree Naidoo Why it’s unfair to lay the responsibility to prove that “love conquers all” on their little shoulders. The events of the past few weeks have spurred a shift in South Africa, from tight smiles and blank faces at work and dinner…
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Family inspires book on life Communitynews.com.au Perth, Western Australia, Australia 2016-01-12 Bryce Luff, Fremantle Gazette The idea of family has changed: Matthew Green and Naomi Kissiedu-Green with their children Savannah, Kobi and Ebony Green. Picture: Matt Jelonek An Atwell mother disheartened by a lack of books depicting multicultural families has decided to fill the gap…
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Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’ NBC News 2015-12-31 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Sharon H. Chang’s son with a copy of Kip Fulbeck’s “Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids.” Photograph Courtesy of Sharon H. Chang Scholar and activist Sharon H. Chang’s new book, “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial…
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Mixed Race Experience in Celeste Ng’s EVERYTHING I NEVER TOLD YOU GrubStreet 2015-12-01 Sonya Larson Not many characters in literature look like me. Half Chinese and half white, I’m used to reading about people who could occupy one half of my family tree, but rarely about the person who emerges where their branches join. I’m…