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: Family/Parenting
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Love and hate: interracial couples speak out about the racism they’ve faced The Guardian 2015-11-26 Nell Frizzell ‘I asked them to share any negative comments they’d overheard about themselves.’ All photographs by Donna Pinckley A couple stand by a flower bed. Her arm is wrapped about his waist like a rose climbing a tree. He…
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Why I want my interracial son to play with Legos The Washington Post 2015-11-27 Nevin Martell “Come build with me,” says my 2-year-old son Zephyr, beckoning me to join him on the living room floor next to a giant bin full of Lego bricks. He pats the finished wood next to him, smiles widely and…
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Taye Diggs Isn’t Wrong (Or Right) About His Son’s Biracial Identity The Establishment 2015-11-20 Jessica Sutherland, Marketing Director In October, Taye Diggs released Mixed Me! as a followup to his first children’s book, 2011’s Chocolate Me! While Chocolate Me! was inspired by Diggs’ experiences as a black child in a predominantly white neighborhood, Mixed Me!…
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When society sees my mixed race children as merely “a lighter shade of black”, it does them a disservice The Independent 2015-11-24 Dawn Jarvis My daughter says to me, “Nobody has ever said to me ‘Do you feel white?” I am a divorced black woman with two mixed race children. Do I want my mixed…
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On Taye Diggs and Reckoning with the Changing Realities of Race in America For Harriet 2015-11-24 Shannon Luders-Manuel My father was a proud paralegal for the NAACP back in the 80s and 90s. He marched in rallies for race equality and was actively involved in uplifting the Black community. When I was growing up, he…
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Raising my biracial Jewish child Ethical Jam The Times of Israel Jerusalem, Israel 2015-11-12 Ethical Jam presents contemporary ethical dilemmas and the responses of Jewish thinkers from across the world Jewish community. Ethical Jam is a project of the Center for Global Judaism (CGJ) at Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts and of the Times…
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Taye Diggs’ brave defense of his half-white son The New York Post 2015-11-19 David Kaufman Actor and singer Taye Diggs might be black, but he wants folks to understand that his son, Walker, isn’t — at least not entirely. That’s the message he’s been shopping around as part of a tour to promote his new…
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When You’re Biracial, There’s No ‘Choice’ in the Matter of Your Blackness The Root 2015-11-19 Charles D. Ellison, Contributing Editor It’s safe to wager that when well-meaning black actor Taye Diggs took a recent dip into controversy over his biracial son’s identity, there was no less than white former Mrs. Taye Diggs putting on the…