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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Parental Communication and Its Influence on Biracial Identity Paper presented at the annual meeting of the NCA 93rd Annual Convention, TBA Chicago, IL 2007-11-15 27 pages Carolyn Brooks The Biracial identity development process has long been overlooked in society and in research. Few models exist and those models in existence are mostly descriptive. This…
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The Politics of Parenting in ‘Mixed’ Families: An Autobiographical Account Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Atlanta Hilton Hotel Atlanta, Georgia 2003-08-16 Nora Lester Murad, Founder and Executive Director Dalia Association This paper explores common themes in the varied experiences of parents in families that are “mixed” in terms of…
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How do adult children of interracial parents—where one parent is Jewish and one is Black—think about personal identity? This question is at the heart of Katya Gibel Azoulay’s “Black, Jewish, and Interracial.”
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Shifting Whiteness: A Life History Approach to U.S. White Parents of “Biracial” or “Black” Children Dissertation submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Joshua Carter Woodfork, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 This research examines how…
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The United Colors of Family (Interview with Charmaine Wijeyesinghe) UMass Amherst, The Magazine for Alumni and Friends University of Massachusettes Summer 2007 Interviewed by Faye S. Wolfe …Tell us about your work on racial identity. For my dissertation I interviewed people who were black, white, or biracial. I came up with a model for how…
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Experiences of racism and the changing nature of white privilege among lone white mothers of mixed-parentage children in the UK Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 33, Issue 2 (February 2010) pages 176-194 DOI: 10.1080/01419870903023652 Vicki Harman, Lecturer in the Centre for Criminology and Sociology Royal Holloway, University of London In a context where mixed relationships…