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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Trend 6: Who Am I? The Rise of Multiple Identities Profiles in Diversity Journal 2013-02-08 Mary-Frances Winters, CEO The Winters Group, Inc. “I am Latina, Muslim, millennial, mother and I want you to understand all of me.” The check the one box identity answer is a thing of the past. Diversity and inclusion practitioners will…
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ITYC Interview: Multicultural Psychologist and Author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Is That Your Child? Thought in Full Color 2013-02-11 Michelle Clark-McCrary, Host Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu Stanford University ITYC had the great pleasure of talking with multicultural psychologist and author Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu about his latest book When Half is Whole: Multiethnic Asian Identities. Through deeply personal, raw storytelling, When…
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Toni Morrison and the Evolution of American Biracial Identity Occidental College Oxy Scholar: ECLS Student Scholarship Submisions for 2009 2008-12-10 17 pages Emily Isenberg She enchanted the entire school. When teachers called on her, they smiled encouragingly. Black boys didn’t trip her in the halls; white boys didn’t stone her, white girls didn’t suck their…
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Dismembering the Master Narrative: Michelle Cliff’s Attempt to Rewrite Jamaican History in Abeng St. John Fisher College, Rochester, New York English Senior Seminar Papers 2012-11-27 27 pages Marissa Petta St. John Fisher College Abeng by Michelle Cliff is a coming-of-age novel set in colonial Jamaica. The heroine, Clare, struggles with defining herself across the lines…
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Nella Larsen’s “Passing” introduces two African American women on a quest for an integrated identity. Irene and Clare are two pale-skinned, childhood friends who are light enough to pass for white. Passing is a work concerned with the representation and construction of race.
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France: The Socialists’ New Head, Harlem Désir The Daily Beast (In Newsweek Magazine) 2012-10-29 Tracy McNicoll, Paris correspondent The faded star of a French anti-racist icon. In a country that went tipsy with Obamania four years ago, Harlem Désir’s election to lead France’s ruling Socialist Party might seem an occasion for bubbly. Désir—whose gifts include…