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
Day: November 15, 2010
-
Ethnic, Multi-Ethnic, and Nationalist Identity in Belize: Voices of Belizean Children Electronic Magazine of Multicultural Education Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2001) Theme: International Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity Sarah Woodbury Haug This paper discusses ethnicity and nationalism in children in the rural community of Punta Gorda, Belize. Ethnicity and nationalism are important aspects of…
-
Ethnicity and Ethnically “Mixed” Identity in Belize: A Study of Primary School-Age Children Anthropology & Education Quarterly Volume 29, Issue 1 (March 1998) pages 44–67 DOI: 10.1525/aeq.1998.29.1.44 Sarah Woodbury Haug This article focuses on the ehtnic identity of children in Belize. Belizean nationalism, as taught in the primary schools, is both pan-ethnic and multiethnic. However,…
-
Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World Gender & History Volume 22, Issue 3 (November 2010) pages 585–602 DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x Brooke N. Newman, John Carter Brown Library Scholar (2010-2011) University of Oxford In recent years, scholars have directed considerable attention to the influence of gender relations and sexual practices…
-
History’s most sordid cover-up New African February 2004 Stella Orakwue The history of the former European colonies’ mixed-race populations is one of the world’s biggest hidden scandals. How did these populations come about? We did not miraculously or biblically produce mixed-race babies from thin air. Most of the black women were raped… …Her children come…
-
Achin surveyed hundreds of biracial adolescents through MySpace and Facebook, personal connections, and random interviews, asking probing personal questions of how they viewed themselves. She found that their responses clustered into five categories of identity: “Monoracials,” who defined themselves predominantly by a primary peer group; “Bidentifiers,” who identify confidently with more than one racial identity;…
-
Watershed Moment for Critical Mixed Race Studies Laura Kina’s Art Blog 2010-11-14 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Critical Mixed Race Studies Inaugural Conference On November 5-6, 2010 DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois hosted the inaugural 2010 Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) conference “Emerging Paradigms…
-
A Silenced History from Belgian Congo: A Mixed Race History Afro-Europe International Blog 2010-06-15 Sibo Kano The Bastards in Our Colony: Hidden Stories of Belgian Metis You haven’t heard much from me lately. I was writing a book and it’s finally finished and published. The book I wrote together with Kathleen Ghequière traces back a…