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: March 2022
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This is the latest entry in my Spiritual Eugenics project, which explores the overlap between eugenics and New Age spirituality.
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he key question posed herein is: What forms of privilege enable a reader to relinquish her attachment to paranoia, suspicion, and vigilance; to opt for openness rather than guardedness, submission rather than aggression (21)? Narratives of racial passing provide one answer to that question.
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These experiences show that, while we as monoracial Black parents can socialize our mixed-race children to represent themselves to society as being part of the larger African American community, their individual traits, aptitudes, and personality differences as mixed-race children are also influential in the racial identity process. These personal factors may be strongly tied to…
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Early in your career you were working on a TV show and pitched an episode about a white family trying to adopt a Black child, and it was rejected. Why did you never pursue adoption as subject matter again? That was my third show on television. I had written the script and loved it. It…
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In a nod to his incisive work, artist Genevieve Gaignard presents a new exhibition, “This is America: The Unsettling Contradictions in American Identity,” at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center from Feb. 12 – May 15. It’s the first solo exhibition of the multidisciplinary artist’s photography and installation work, through which she unravels the ongoing issues…
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A Daughter’s Quest: On Anne Liu Kellor’s “Heart Radical” Los Angeles Review of Books 2021-11-12 Amy Reardon Anne Liu Kellor, Heart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging (Berkeley, California: She Writes Press, 2021) GROWING UP ASIAN AMERICAN in Seattle, Anne Liu Kellor struggled to understand the ache she carried inside. Her debut memoir,…
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White supremacy will always attract nonwhite believers.
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The origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children
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Marie Therese Coincoin was born into slavery in French Colonial Louisiana then gained her own freedom and the freedom of many of her children.