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
- Loving Across Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health Conference
- 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: Media Archive
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“White Like Her: My Family’s Story of Race and Racial Passing” is the story of Gail Lukasik’s mother’s “passing,” Gail’s struggle with the shame of her mother’s choice, and her subsequent journey of self-discovery and redemption.
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We unpack the writings of Zadie Smith and Barack Obama. And we kind of have to ask: Aren’t we all a little bit mixed?
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Doctors often take a patient’s race into account when making a diagnosis—or ruling one out. Professor Dorothy Roberts says this practice is both outdated and dangerous.
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Emancipation Day based on story of Grady’s father who kept black heritage secret for 50 years
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How far would a son go to belong? And how far would a father go to protect him?
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Natasha Marshall gives an impassioned performance in a semi-autobiographical show, writes Veronica Lee
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I was the only girl on my high school’s football team — but I can no longer support the sport.
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Thanks to my parents transplanting me often from one ethnic mix to another, I’ve become something of a code-switching connoisseur.