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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Month: September 2015
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Dr. Seuss is one of the most beloved children’s authors in America. He also has a rather mixed record on issues of race and diversity.
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In this book we set the “post-racial” claims into relief against a background of pre- and post-election racial animus directed at Barack Obama, his administration, and African Americans in general. In specific, we examine how racial fears, coded language, and explicit as well as implicit (automatic/subconscious) racism are drawn upon and manipulated by the political…
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WorldLink: Racial identities and the politics of color Deutsche Welle (DW) 2015-06-19 Bliss Broyard responds to the recent controversy surrounding Rachel Dolezal’s “passing” as black, and describes how racial identities have shaped her own life and career. Download the interview (00:07:55) here.
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My baby will be mixed race. So why did I automatically think of him as ‘black’? The Guardian 2014-10-14 Victoria Bond I picked a black baby to represent my unborn child on a cake because of my own adherence to the ‘one-drop rule’ My 87-year-old grandmother has a very specific way of saying the word…
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Psychologists Welcome Analysis Casting Doubt on Their Work The New York Times 2015-08-29 Benedict Carey, Science Reporter The field of psychology sustained a damaging blow Thursday: A new analysis found that only 36 percent of findings from almost 100 studies in the top three psychology journals held up when the original experiments were rigorously redone.…