Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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    • List of Definitions and Terms
    • My Favorite Articles and Papers
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    • Praise for Mixed Race Studies
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    • US Census Race Categories, 1790-2010
    • 1661: The First ‘Mixed-Race’ Milestone
    • 2010 U.S. Census – Some Thoughts

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  • 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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List of Definitions and Terms

  • amalgamation (history)
  • blanqueamiento
  • Brazilian Population ‘Color’ Self-Descriptors
  • Code Noir (Black Codes)
  • coloured (Southern African context)
  • critical mixed race studies
  • DOI (digital object identifier)
  • Fletcher Report, 1930 (The)
  • half-caste
  • hapa
  • hyperdescent
  • hypodescent
  • hybridity
  • Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS)
  • Jim Crow (laws)
  • Loving v. (versus) Virginia
  • marginal man
  • Melungeon
  • mestizaje
  • Métis
  • miscegenation
  • mix-d:
  • mulatto/mulatta
  • mulatto escape hatch
  • octoroon
  • one-drop rule
  • passing
  • pigmentocracy
  • plaçage
  • Plessy v. (versus) Ferguson
  • Punjabi Mexican American
  • quadroon
  • Quadroon Balls
  • race
  • race (2)
  • Racial Democracy
  • Racial Integrity Act of 1924 (State legislature of Virginia)
  • sambo
  • signare
  • snowball (sampling)
  • spurious issue
  • tragic mulatto
  • Terms Used to Describe People of ‘Mixed-Race’: Past and Present (courtesy of the Multiple Heritage Project)
  • triracial isolates
  • white supremacy

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