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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Category: Media Archive
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I theorize that multiracial categories provide mixed information about how well a candidate adheres to group norms of identity, resulting in a multiracial advantage across groups, but a disadvantage within groups.
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Purdee also wrote and directed the new folk-rock musical film.
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A memoir about one man’s journey to connect with his musician father, ultimately redefining what family really means
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“The Meaning of Multiraciality: A Racially Queer Exploration of Multiracial College Students’ Identity Production” provides a comprehensive overview of Multiraciality as a term, experience, and identity using data from a study of Multiracial college students and well as the author’s own experiences as a Multiracial person.
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Multiracial Heritage Week: June 7-14, 2022 United States Census Bureau 2022-06-07 Release Number CB22-SFS.85 From the Congressional Record, 117th Congress, HON. JIM COSTA OF CALIFORNIA, June 7, 2021. HONORING MULTIRACIAL HERITAGE WEEK, “Multiracial Heritage Week is an opportunity to celebrate the contributions and achievements of the multiracial community. Multiracial individuals are not only parts of…
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The Importance of Being Turbaned The Antioch Review Volume 69, Number 2, Spring 2011 pages 208-221 Paul A. Kramer, Associate Professor of History Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee This narrative piece, selected by The Best American Essays 2012 as a “notable essay,” tells the story of Rev. Jesse Routté, an African American Lutheran minister in New…
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Kristen Green’s The Devil’s Half Acre recounts the story of a fugitive slave jail, and the enslaved woman, Mary Lumpkin, who came to own it.
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The optics, while a sign of change, don’t point to any change in the status quo
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Mixed people do not owe anyone an explanation for their Blackness.
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“The Vanishing Half” deals with the theme of racial “passing” in the 1950s. Passing is different today, but still presents a choice between safety and authenticity.