Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
recent posts
- Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both/And Belonging
- 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
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Category: Religion
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Growing up in China, I never quite understood why I didn’t fit in.
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Contrary to some popular beliefs, today’s British population does not descend from one Anglo-Saxon heritage.
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When a child is raised with parents from different cultures, they are exposed to different perspectives and beliefs that shape how they approach the world.
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The revelations have prompted some painful personal reckonings over identity and heritage. But they have also fueled a larger, politically charged debate on what it means to be Hispanic and Native American.
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Shortly after keynote speaker Lacey Schwartz took to the podium, she made an emphatic statement: “Tell the truth about things that are hard to tell the truth about.” If that had been the case, her life would have been less complicated, and she would have known far sooner exactly who she was.
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Judith Weisenfeld’s “New World A-Coming: Black Religion and Racial Identity during the Great Migration” is, in short, a marvelous book…
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In Hawaiian by Birth Joy Schulz explores the tensions among the competing parental, cultural, and educational interests affecting these children and, in turn, the impact the children had on nineteenth-century U.S. foreign policy.
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In “Perishing Heathens” Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory. Rubin also recounts the lives of Native…
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Fifteen writers reveal their diverse experiences with passing, including racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, gender, and economic.
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Each of my siblings’ names, skin, hair, and religious observances earned us different levels of privilege.