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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- 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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Colorblind parents could handicap their biracial kids The Grio 2010-09-16 Jennifer H. Cunningham When he was still a toddler, Rebecca Romo’s son, Emilio asked her why his skin was darker than hers. The now 8-year-old Emilio, who is of Mexican and African-American heritage, also went through a stage where he hated his hair, telling his…
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White Parents – Black Children: How Parents Contribute to the Development of their Biracial Child’s Identity American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-09 20 pages Cristina Ortiz University of Chicago When a biracial child has one black and one white parent, society tends to identify the child as “black” or…
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What’s in a Name? Mixed-Race Families and Resistance to Racial Codification in Eighteenth-Century France French Historical Studies Volume 33, Number 3 (2010) Pages 357-385 DOI: 10.1215/00161071-2010-002 Jennifer L. Palmer, Collegiate Assistant Professor of History University of Chicago The Saint-Domingue planter Aimé-Benjamin Fleuriau did not simply leave colonialism behind when he returned to his hometown La…
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Relationship Quality Between Multiracial Adolescents and Their Biological Parents American Journal of Orthopsychiatry Volume 70, Issue 4 (October 2000) pages 445–454 DOI: 10.1037/h0087763 M. Elise Radina, Associate Professor of Family Studies & Social Work Miami University, Ohio Teresa M. Cooney, Associate Professor of Human Develpopment and Family Studies University of Missouri National survey data were…
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The social care system and mixed race young people: placing the individual child at the heart of decision making People in Harmony Central London, England 2010-11-11 A one-day conference from People in Harmony which will consider why mixed race young people are over-represented in the care system, how they fare in the system and beyond,…
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Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (formerly Cultural Diversity and Mental Health) Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1998) pages 237-247 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.4.3.237 Maria P. P. Root Examined what drives the process of racial identity development in general for persons of mixed…