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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Why Media Representation Matters To Biracial And Multiracial People Blue Nation Review 2015-06-04 John Paul Brammer, Identity Editor “So, you’re sort of nothing then.” I’ve only heard this once. Someone asked me what my race was because they were curious. I explained to them that I was mixed, that I had both indigenous and European…
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4th Annual “What Are You?” with Lacey Schwartz’s “Little White Lie” Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont Street Brooklyn, New York 11201 Monday, 2015-06-08, 18:30-21:00 EDT (Local Time) A BHS “Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations” program. Top: Lacey Schwartz, photo by Michael Hill; Bottom: Lise Funderburg, photo by Tigist Tsegie On the week of Loving Day 2015,…
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Racism under a Friendly Guise Joy Huang Stoffers: Writer and Novelist Saturday, 2015-05-09 Joy Huang Stoffers racism, n. A belief that one’s own racial or ethnic group is superior, or that other such groups represent a threat to one’s cultural identity, racial integrity, or economic well-being; (also) a belief that the members of different racial…
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The Color Conversation-Healthy Identity Happy Kids: Fostering Positive Racial Identity in Mixed Youth Multiracial Americans of Southern California (MASC) World City Center 3911 W. Adams Blvd. Los Angeles, California 90018 Saturday, 2015-06-20, 13:00-16:00 PDT (Local Time) Join our 3rd parenting seminar where we focus on issues relating to adolescence – specifically, racial identity. Hear a…
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‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson Sunday Book Review The New York Times 2015-06-01 Baz Dreisinger, Associate Professor of English John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” Abraham Lincoln declared in his 1858 speech presaging the Civil War. Such a house sits at the heart…
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Review: Mat Johnson’s ‘Loving Day’ Takes a Satirical Slant on Racial Identities The New York Times 2015-05-26 Dwight Garner, Senior writer and book critic Mat Johnson’s new novel, “Loving Day,” takes its title from an unofficial holiday, one his narrator likens to “Mulatto Christmas.” It’s the observance of the Supreme Court ruling in Loving v.…
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A Qualitative Examination of Multiracial Students’ Coping Responses to Experiences with Prejudice and Discrimination in College Journal of College Student Development Volume 56, Number 4, May 2015 pages 331-348 DOI: 10.1353/csd.2015.0041 Samuel D. Museus, Associate Professor of Higher Education Morgridge College of Education University of Denver Susan A. Lambe Sariñana, Clinical Psychologist Cambridge, Massachusetts Tasha…
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Crowe’s ‘whitewashing’ sparks criticism from advocates BBC News 2015-06-07 Elena Boffetta, BBC Washington Hollywood’s reliance on bankable – and often white – actors has led to another round of sharp criticism of filmmakers for “whitewashing” roles where race and ethnicity play a part. In Aloha, Cameron Crowe’s latest film, Emma Stone, a American actress with…
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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) 2002 Richard Wormser, Series producer, Co-writer Jim Crow was not a person, yet affected the lives of millions of people. Named after a popular 19th-century minstrel song that stereotyped African Americans, “Jim Crow” came to personify the system of government-sanctioned…