Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial and Intercultural Relationships and Mental Health
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- 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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Month: May 2012
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How Culture and Science Make Race “Genetic”: Motives and Strategies for Discrete Categorization of the Continuous and Heterogeneous Literature and Medicine Volume 26, Number 1 (Spring 2007) pages 240–268 DOI: 10.1353/lm.2008.0000 Celeste Condit, Distinguished Research Professor University of Georgia Scientists, medical personnel, and others have recently re-asserted the equivalence of human genetic variation and social…
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An educational defense for multiracial identity San Francisco Chronicle 2001-07-25 Kimberly Cooper-Plaszewski Celebrate rather than assimilate biracial heritages U.S. CENSUS 2000 marked the first time in history that multiracial people were given the “option” to specify more than one race to describe their racial identity. On the surface, this alternative may give the impression…
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In Mixed Company: Multiracial academics, advocates and artists gather for Hapa Japan Conference Nichi Bei: A mixed plate of Japanese American News & Culture 2011-05-26 Alec Yoshio MacDonald, Nichi Bei Weekly Contributor As a graduate student in UCLA’s psychology department during the late 1970s, Christine Iijima Hall absorbed scathing criticism about her dissertation. Fellow academics…
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Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988) grappled with the ambiguity of his identity as an artist caught up in two cultures.
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Honors 301: Mixed Race Art and Identity DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois Autumn Quarter 2011-2012 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media, & Design Mixed Race Art & Identity will focus on contemporary art and popular culture to critically examine images of miscegenation and mixed race and post-ethnoracial identity constructs. Students will learn about the history and…
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Missed Opportunities and the Problem of Mohawk Chief John Norton’s Cherokee Ancestry Ethnohistory Volume 59, Number 2 (Spring 2012) pages 261-291 DOI: 10.1215/00141801-1536885 Carl Benn, Professor of History Ryerson University John Norton (1770–1831?) was one of the most important Iroquois leaders in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the author of a thousand-page…
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Biologically, there is only one human race. Race applied to human beings is a social grouping; it is a system originally devised in the 1700s to support slavery and colonialism that classifies people into a social hierarchy based on invented biological, cultural, and legal demarcations. Dorothy E. Roberts, “Breaking the Bonds of Race and Genomics,”…