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: January 2013
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You Have No Right: Jane Webb’s Story Out of the Box: Notes for the Archives @ Library of Virginia Virginia Memory: Library of Virginia 2012-11-14 Greg Crawford, Local Records Coordinator The colonial era Northampton County court records tell a fascinating story of a woman named Jane Webb. Born of a white mother, she was a…
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The End of Race History? Not Yet Center for Genetics and Society 2012-12-14 Osagie K. Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law University of California, Hastings Have we gone beyond race? Many argue society has now overcome centuries of strife to become “post-racial”—a moment that law professor Sumi Cho of DePaul University in Chicago refers to as…
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Census Race Change For Hispanics Sparks Criticism The Huffington Post 2013-01-09 Tony Castro Some Latino civil rights groups are questioning the U.S. Census consideration of designating Hispanics a race of their own, fearing the loss of national original designations. The change, making “Hispanic” a racial instead of an ethnic category, would eliminate the check-off boxes…
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Biracial women pushed to undergo genetic screeening: Cobble Hill hospital focuses on mixed race New York Daily News 2013-01-13 Simone Weichselbaum As interracial families become more common, LICH docs quiz women on ethnicity Doctors are pushing biracial Brooklyn women to undergo genetic counseling to learn if their racial mix makes them more prone to disease.…
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Harry Potter and the mistaken myth of the Mixed-Race messiah Paper presented at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-03 6 pages Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Harry Potter franchise has worldwide popularity. Contained within Harry Potter are popular stories about Mixed-Race, both appealing and toxic. Harry Potter and…
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Mixed-Blood Marriage in North-Western New South Wales: A Survey of the Marital Conditions of 264 Aboriginal and Mixed-Blood Women Oceania Volume 22, Number 2 (December 1951) pages 116-129 Marie Reay This survey is based on family records of over 300 aboriginal and mixed-blood women in north-western New South Wales, collected during 1945-6. The records were…
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For the Movement: Community Education Supporting Multiracial Organizing Equity & Excellence in Education Volume 38, Issue 2, 2005 pages 145-154 DOI: 10.1080/10665680590935124 Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The multiracial people’s movement in the United States has expanded significantly in the last 10 years (Douglass, 2003). Historically, community-based education programs have supported social movements in…