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.
about
Category: Communications/Media Studies
-
American Pop Culture Hides, Reveals Multiracial Asian-Americans Voice of America 2014-08-03 Jim Stevenson The discussion of race in the United States has always been complex and often difficult. Yet in an overwhelmingly large percentage of families, it is not difficult to find some evidence of a multiracial influence. LeiLani Nishime is assistant professor of communications…
-
Explores how the trope of racial passing continues to serve as a touchstone for gauging public beliefs and anxieties about race in this multiracial era.
-
This essay lauds the publication of the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies, then turns immediately to argue that the journal must focus itself on actively becoming the authoritative voice on mixed-race matters, while also speaking out against naive colorblindness and premature declarations of postraciality. This is crucial because the public receives its information on…
-
Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional Multiracial. Ralina L. Joseph. [Cannon] MELUS: Multi-Ethnic LIterature of the United States Volume 39, Issue 3 (Fall 2014) pages 207-209 DOI: 10.1093/melus/mlu028 Sarita Cannon, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature San Francisco State University Transcending Blackness: From the New Millennium Mulatta to the Exceptional…
-
Bill de Blasio and the Art of Political Image at… the Mermaid Parade The New York Times 2014-06-23 Vanessa Friedman, Chief Fashion Critic Mayor Bill de Blasio of New York with, from left, his son, Dante; his wife, Chirlane McCray; and his daughter, Chiara, at the Coney Island Mermaid Parade on Saturday. [Tina Fineberg/Associated Press]…
-
Elliot Rodger’s half-white male privilege Salon Thusday, 2014-05-29 Joan Walsh, Editor at Large The killer’s Asian heritage matters. So does his ugly class entitlement. Misogyny crosses lines of race and culture The widespread recognition that Elliot Rodger’s killing spree was the tragic result of misogyny and male entitlement has been a little bit surprising, and…
-
Representations of mixed race Asian Americans in popular culture