Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

Day: June 19, 2019

Is race mixture an antidote to racism?

2019-06-19

Is race mixture an antidote to racism? Monitor: Global Intelligence on Racism 2018-12-03 Monica Moreno-Figueroa, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Cambridge; Fellow in Social Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology University of Manchester There is a tendency for commentators situated towards the political right to claim that…
Racism ‘won’t go away’ even if we’re all mixed-race in the future

2019-06-19

The increased visibility of the mixed-race population may have the potential to ‘positively shift racial attitudes’ but, as study author Duke University psychologist Sarah E. Gaither has said, ‘trying to ignore race effectively means trying to ignore racism, which lets the current racial inequities continue’.
Chris Abani: Face Value in Brooklyn

2019-06-19

When I tell people that my mother was a white English woman and my father Igbo, they look at me skeptically. It’s a pause that really means; are you sure? You’re so dark. It’s a pause that I’ve heard only in the West. In Nigeria most people know on meeting me that I’m not entirely…