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: January 2013
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On Raising Asian-Jewish Children The Jewish Daily Forward the sisterhood: where jewish women converse 2011-05-30 Renee Ghert-Zand The recent Forward article “Raising Children on Kugel and Kimchi, and as Jews” centered on a new study that found that many families in which one parent is Jewish and the other is Asian are raising their children…
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Canada’s First Nations: Time we stopped meeting like this The Economist 2013-01-19 Protests by native peoples pose awkward questions for their leaders, and for Stephen Harper’s government Back in the 18th century British and French settlers in what is now Canada secured peace with the indigenous inhabitants by negotiating treaties under which the locals agreed…
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An Examination of Biracial College Youths’ Family Ethnic Socialization, Ethnic Identity, and Adjustment: Do Self-Identification Labels and University Context Matter? Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology 2012-08-20 DOI: 10.1037/a0029438 Aerika S. Brittian, Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology University of Illinois, Chicago Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor, Professor School of Social and Family Dynamics Arizona State University Chelsea…
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Mixed Asian Americans and Health: Navigating Uncharted Waters Chapter in: Handbook of Asian American Health Springer 2013 pages 129-134 Print ISBN: 978-1-4614-2226-6 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-2227-3 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-2227-3 Edited by: Grace J. Yoo San Francisco State University Mai-Nhung Le San Francisco State University Alan Y. Oda Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, California Chapter Author: Cathy J.…
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You Don’t Know Me: Picture Books to Make Biracial and Multiracial Children Comfortable with Dual Identities Multicultural Review Volume 18, Issue 4 (Winter 2009) pages 20-24 Kena Sosa Next year, in 2010, our country will be due for round two of the census containing an option for biracial or multiracial people. This feature debuted in…
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The Other Half of My Heart Random House June 2010 304 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-385-73440-0 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-440-24006-8 Sundee T. Frazier The close relationship of a pair of biracial twins is tested when their grandmother enters them in a pageant for African American girls in this new story from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent…
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Stories of Multiracial Experiences in Literature for Children, Ages 9–14 Children’s Literature in Education December 2013, Volume 44, Issue 4 pages 359-376 DOI: 10.1007/s10583-013-9196-5 Amina Chaudhri, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago William H. Teale, Professor of Literacy, Language and Culture University of Illinois, Chicago This study analyzed 90 realistic novels written…
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When should medicine talk about race? Scientific American Unofficial Prognosis: Perceptions and prescriptions of a medical student 2012-08-25 Ilana Yurkiewicz Harvard Medical School Race is everywhere in medicine. Most health statistics are broken down by race. We routinely characterize diseases by which populations they affect more and less and medications by which ethnicities respond better…