Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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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Month: March 2010
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Racial Identification of the Biracial Preschool Child in a Single parent Family: Implications for Study Family Science Review Volume 4, Number 3 (August 1991) pages 81-92 Z. Lois Bryant, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia Johnetta Wade Morrison, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri, Columbia This…
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The Strangeness of Passing: Commentary on Paper by Christopher Bonovitz Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 442-449 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088377 Annabella Bushra The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Christopher Bonovitz gives us a rich landscape of the theoretical, historical, and relational aspects of his work with his mixed-race patient.…
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Biracial Females’ Reflections on Racial Identity Development in Adolescence Journal of Feminist Family Therapy Volume 18, Issue 4 (February 2007) pages 53 – 75 DOI: 10.1300/J086v18n04_03 Karia Kelch-Oliver Department of Counseling and Psychological Services Georgia State University Leigh A. Leslie, Associate Professor and Graduate Director Department of Family Studies University of Maryland As the number…
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Mixed Race and the Negotiation of Racialized Selves: Developing the Capacity for Internal Conflict Psychoanalytic Dialogues Volume 19, Issue 4 (July 2009) pages 426 – 441 DOI: 10.1080/10481880903088021 Christopher Bonovitz William Alanson White Institute; New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy & Psychoanalysis, Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis The author uses contemporary psychoanalytic theory in further…
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Couple finds a more than a century old gravestone Beaumont Enterprise 2009-12-13 Kyle Peveto Beneath a tool shed behind her house, Mallary Sanders and her fiance found a 118-year-old piece of history they are begging someone to take. Last weekend, Sanders’ fiance, Justin Trusty, 24, was cleaning beneath the pier-and-beam shed when he came across…
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Shades of Gray: The Life and Times of a Free Family of Color in Antebellum Texas Jason A. Gillmer, Professor of Law Texas Wesleyan University School of Law 2009-08-13 64 pages The history of race and slavery is often told from the perspective of either the oppressors or the oppressed. This Article takes a different…
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2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box The Huffington Post 2010-03-10 Marcia Dawkins, Assistant Professor of Human Communication California State University, Fullerton Robert M. Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, sent me a letter today. Mr. Groves told me that my 2010 Census form will be arriving sometime next week and that my “response…
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Stem Cell Donor Matching for Patients of Mixed Race 2011-04-04 21 pages Ted Bergstrom, Aaron and Cherie Raznick Chair of Economics University of California, Santa Barbara Rod Garratt, Professor of Econommics University of California, Santa Barbara Damien Sheehan-Connor, Assistant Professor of Economics Wesleyan University The plight of multiracial leukemia patients who are unable to find…
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In the racial politics of the United States, racial passing refers to a person classified by society as a member of one racial group (most commonly Caucasian / Afro-American heritage) choosing to identify with a different group (usually white) by appearance. The term was used especially in the US to describe a person of mixed-race…