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
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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: Philosophy
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Populations, individuals, and biological race Biology and Philosophy Volume 39, article number 10, (2024) 24 pages DOI: 10.1007/s10539-024-09946-0 M.A. Diamond-Hunter, Teaching Associate Department of History and Philosophy of Science Research Associate, Sidney Sussex College University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom In this paper, I plan to show that the use of a specific population concept—Millstein’s…
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“Thinking While Black” brings together the work and ideas of the most notorious film critic in America, one of the most influential intellectuals in the United Kingdom, and a political and cultural generation that consumed images of rebellion and revolution around the world as young Black teenagers in the late 1960s.
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In response to recent controversies about racial transitioning, I provide an argument that deceptions about ancestry may sometimes constitute fraud. In order to arrive at this conclusion, I criticize the arguments from analogy made famous by Rebecca Tuvel and Christine Overall. My claim is that we should not think of racial transitioning as similar to…
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Though a means of escaping and undermining racial injustice, the practice comes with own set of costs and sacrifices.
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In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman explain the differences between social and biological notions of race.
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This is the latest entry in my Spiritual Eugenics project, which explores the overlap between eugenics and New Age spirituality.