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: September 2010
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White Parents – Black Children: How Parents Contribute to the Development of their Biracial Child’s Identity American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton San Francisco San Francisco, California 2009-08-09 20 pages Cristina Ortiz University of Chicago When a biracial child has one black and one white parent, society tends to identify the child as “black” or…
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The Influence of K-12 Schooling on the Identity Development of Multiethnic Students University of British Columbia, Vancouver April 2010 Erica Mohan Thesis submitted in the partial fulfullment of the requirments for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Graduate Studies (Educational Studies) This study examined the influence of K-12 schooling on the…
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Equally Multiracial? A Study of Asian/Whites and Black/Whites American Sociological Association Annual Meeting Hilton Atlanta and Atlanta Marriott Marquis Atlanta, Georgia 2010-08-13 19 pages Hephzibah Strmic-Pawl University of Virginia In a study with 28 individuals with either Asian/White or Black/White descent I find that all the participants prefer some variation of a multiracial identity. However,…