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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Don’t Pass on Context: The Importance of Academic Discourses in Contemporary Discussions on the Multiracial Experience Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Japanese American National Museum Los Angeles, California 2011-06-11 Steven F. Riley The following is the slightly modified text from my opening remarks. As we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the start of the…
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New Geographic Categories Listings for MixedRaceStudies.org 2012-03-10 Steven F. Riley Over the next few days, I will be removing several frequently used geographic tags (indexed items) and converting them into categories (which are listed on the right-hand side). The current tags (that will be placed under the parent tag United States) are: Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, and…
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I find it quite ironic—and perhaps a bit amusing—that after all of the debate surrounding multiracial identity and the United States Census, the most famous son of an interracial couple and the daughter of the most famous interracial couple, checked only one racial identity on their census form. It would appear that the heralding of an era…
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Mixed Race Studies with Steve Riley BlogtalkRadio: Is That Your Child? 2012-01-20, 19:30 EST/16:30 PST; [2012-01-21, 00:30Z] Michelle McCrary, Host ITYC welcomes creator, founder and editor of the site Mixed Race Studies.org Steve Riley to the podcast this week. In his words, Riley began Mixed Race Studies in April of 2009 “in recognition of our…
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New Categories Listings for MixedRaceStudies.org 2011-10-02 Steven F. Riley Over the next few days, I will be removing three frequently used tags (indexed items) and converting them into categories (which are listed on the right-hand side). Thanks to Dr. G. Reginald Daniel for letting me flush out my ideas with him. Slavery Over three centuries of human…
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MixedRaceStudies.org Reaches 3,000 Posts 2011-10-03 Steven F. Riley MixedRaceStudies.org, called by a preeminent scholar, “the most comprehensive and objective clearinghouse for scholarly publications related to critical mixed-race theory,” and the recipient of other praise has reached its 3,000th post! Created in May 2009 by Steven F. Riley, this free online resource consists of links to: almost…
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Individuals and groups today in 2011 that insist and demand we all tell our whole “racial truth,” are no less misguided and insidious than the Virginians who insisted and demanded “racial integrity” in 1924. Steven F. Riley, “Don’t Pass on Context: The Importance of Academic Discourses in Contemporary Discussions on the Multiracial Experience,” (paper presented…
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The clever positioning by multiracial identity activists of the Loving marriage as the 1960s vanguards of multiraciality, promotes several troubling ideologies that should exposed and examined. These ideologies effectively distance the Lovings’ saga from the greater African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Firstly, the emphasis on the marriage of the Richard and Mildred Loving implies…