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: Communications/Media Studies
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We’re finally feeling empowered to speak openly about racism in the newsroom.
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Mixed-race women and popular culture in Brazil and the United States
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The hit cartoon series has helped me process my biracial identity.
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From newspaper stories disdaining her every behavior, despite having lauded some of the same actions when White British Royals like Kate Middleton did them, to a reporter literally comparing her newborn son to a monkey, the British media has been unconscionable toward the Duchess of Sussex.
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How popular media cultivates genealogy but buries its cultural context
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While a lot of progress has been made since then, the way that society perceives mixed-race people still needs to be explored. “Mixed-ish” goes back to basics and uses comedy as a tool to discuss it.