Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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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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White Women in Interracial Families: Reflections on Hybridization, Feminine Identities, and Racialized Othering Gender Issues Volume 14, Number 2 (June, 1994) pages 49-72 Print ISSN: 1098-092X, Online ISSN: 1936-4717 DOI: 10.1007/BF02685656 Carmen Luke, Emeritus Associate Professor of Education, and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies James Cook University, Queensland, Australia Interracial unions, biracial and…
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Phillip Handy – Race and gender in the family Rutgers University Undergraduate Research Spotlight 2009-07-26 Phillip Handy Rutgers University Phillip Handy discusses his research, which looks into the question of how mother-daughter and father-son relationships impact a mixed-race child’s racial identity. Phillip is advised by Dr. Diana Sanchez, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology…
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Building Kinship and Community: Relational Processes of Bicultural Identity Among Adult Multiracial Adoptees Family Process Volume 49, Issue 1 (March 2010) pages 26-42 DOI: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2010.01306.x Gina Miranda Samuels, Associate Professor School of Social Service Administration University of Chicago This study uses the case of transracially adopted multiracial adults to highlight an alternative family context and…