Mixed Race Studies

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  • Claiming Race, Identity and a Right to Education

    Claiming Race, Identity and a Right to Education Mixed Roots Stories 2015-02-02 Briellen Griffin, Doctoral Student of sociology in Cultural and Educational Policy Studies School of Education Loyola University Chicago It is my job to think about school. Everyday, I read, write, and speak about education. I ask, and often try to answer, the big…

  • Skin

    Skin Mixed Roots Stories 2015-01-26 Tru Leverette, Associate Professor of English University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida “I wish I had white skin,” my three year-old daughter said, swinging breezily at the park. Gulp. “Why do you say that, Sweetheart?” I asked, outwardly calm but inwardly exclaiming, Shit! What do I do with this? “Because…

  • Kevin Costner Hopes His New Movie Redefines How People Think About Race

    Kevin Costner Hopes His New Movie Redefines How People Think About Race The Huffington Post 2015-01-22 Sasha Bronner, Los Angeles Editor Kevin Costner, who just turned 60 earlier this week, can do a lot of things. “I can make a love story. I can make the American baseball movie. I can make the political thriller,…

  • Where are all the interracial children’s books?

    Where are all the interracial children’s books? The Washington Post 2015-01-20 Nevin Martell Browsing the shelves of the children’s section at bookstores can be a depressing experience for the parent of an interracial youngster. I’m a mutt mixture Caucasian with roots going back to Western Europe and beyond, while my wife is from Ghana. We…

  • Grappling With Today’s Realities From a Black-Jewish Perspective

    Grappling With Today’s Realities From a Black-Jewish Perspective Jewish Exponent: What it Means to be Jewish in Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2015-01-15 David A. Love The author with his wife, Sarah Katz, and son, Micah. As an African-American who is a member of the Jewish community by choice — and is also raising a Jewish child…

  • So what are you anyway?

    So what are you anyway? CYF News (CYF News is the newsletter for the Children, Youth and Families Office) American Psycological Association August 2013 Mahogany L. Swanson Individuals in the U.S. with one Black and one White parent use the concept of “race switching” as one mechanism for coping with pressures of racial identity. Although…

  • Living Color: Fathers Talk to Their Bi-Racial Sons

    Living Color: Fathers Talk to Their Bi-Racial Sons NBC News 2015-01-14 Photographs by André Chung Teaching lessons they never had to learn, fathers speak to their bi-racial sons about identity, perception, and dealing with law enforcement. Mark Johnson-Lewis, 48, and his son, Tyler Lewis, 22, of Columbia, MD (André Chung/NBC News) …Mark: You’re black in…

  • Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families

    Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families University of Massachusetts Press 1997-11-21 160 pages 0.5 x 8 x 10.5 inches ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-101-4 ISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-100-7 (out of print) Gigi Kaeser, Co-director Family Diversity Projects, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts Peggy Gillespie, Co-director Family Diversity Projects, Inc., Amherst, Massachusetts Photographs by Gigi Kaeser. Interviews by Peggy Gillespie.…

  • Intermarried Couples and “Multiculturalism” in Japan

    Intermarried Couples and “Multiculturalism” in Japan CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture ISSN 1481-4374 Volume 15, Issue 2 (2013) DOI: 10.7771/1481-4374.2216 Kaori Mori Want Shibaura Institute of Technology In her article “Intermarried Couples and ‘Multiculturalism’ in Japan” Kaori Mori Want discusses why hyphenated names for the children of intermarried children are important for the achievement of…

  • The Talk: After Ferguson, a Shaded Conversation About Race

    The Talk: After Ferguson, a Shaded Conversation About Race The New York Times 2014-12-13 Dana Canedy, Senior Editor LIKE so many African-American parents, I had rehearsed “the talk,” that nausea-inducing discussion I needed to have with my son about how to conduct himself in the presence of the police. I was prepared for his questions,…