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.
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Day: April 16, 2015
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The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah, and Japan’s Miss Universe Reveal Biracial Realities Will Wright: Cinéma, Style, Race and Politics Permeate Our Lives. That Fascinates Me. 2015-04-09 Will Wright Thanks in part to the changing of the guard at The Daily Show, biracial experiences and related politics have made headlines, and snuck into our minds. South…
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What the Heck Are You? The Racial Guessing Game I Don’t Want to Play Hapa Mama: Asian Fusion Family and Food 2015-04-13 Melinda Frank, Guest Blogger Growing Up Ethnic “I thought you were Dutch–you’re Indonesian?” “I thought you were Irish–you’re Dutch?” “Wait, you’re white and Asian?” “What are you anyways?” I hate answering the question…
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The Family Secret in the Mirror The Brian Lehrer Show WNYC 93.9 FM New York, New York Monday, 2015-03-23 Brian Lehrer, Host Lacey Schwartz wins the documentary section prize for her documentary work-in-progress, ‘Outside The Box’ at the TAA Awards during the 5th Annual Tribeca Film Festival. (Mat Szwajkos/Getty) Raised as a white Jewish kid…