Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- 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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Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking (review) Journal of World History Volume 23, Number 3, September 2012 pages 676-680 DOI: 10.1353/jwh.2012.0064 Magnus Fiskesjö, Associate Professor of Anthropology Cornell University Michael Keevak has given us a wonderful, even riveting, deep-historical account of how people in Asia (particularly East Asia) came to be seen as…
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A few questions from CMRS 2012 Two or More: Mixed thoughts about the Census NAC 2012-11-18 Eric Hamako Eric Hamako is one of 32 members of the United States Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations, 2012-2014. This blog is intended to 1) share updates and Eric’s perspectives on the…
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College applications force mixed-race teens to color outside the lines The Mash: For teens, by teens 2012-11-15 Steffie Drucker Niles North High School, Skokie, Illinois Josh Kalamotousakis John F. Kennedy High School, Chicago, Illinois The Mash is a weekly newspaper and Web site that is here to serve you, the Chicago-area teenager. The paper is…
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Coping with the crickets: a fusion autoethnography of silence, schooling, and the continuum of biracial identity formation International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education Published online: 2012-11-07 DOI: 10.1080/09518398.2012.731537 Lynnette Mawhinney, Assistant Professor of Elementary/Early Childhood Education The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey Emery Marc Petchauer, Assistant Professor of Teacher Development & Educational…
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This study systematically analyzed novels of contemporary and historical fiction with mixed race content intended for readers age 9-14. In the context of an increasingly multiracial and multicultural society, this study was primarily concerned with the question of identity representation: What is contemporary children’s literature saying about the experience of being racially mixed? This question…