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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Rhonda Fils-Aimé was adopted by a white family as a baby, and her biological father, Philippe, had no idea
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The Tribune spoke with Valentine about what it was like to grow up under such false pretenses, surrounded by a family and community clearly discomfited by issues of race. She also offers thoughts about what it means to be a mixed-race person of color in America today and why the statement “I don’t see race”…
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Fredrick D. Kakinami Cloyd makes a powerful debut with “Dream of the Water Children,” a book which transcends genres and enlightens readers with ethereal beauty and judicious use of research in a memoir which recounts his relationship with his family.
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And Other Adventures in Internalized Racism
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‘I spend a lot of time looking at my children and wondering to myself what their skin tone means in 2019’
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My father was raised under Jim Crow. My children could pass for white. Where does that leave me?
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Growing up as mixed-race alongside my white mother