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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Tag: Eric Hamako
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I think it’s important for everyone to know that neither racism nor race are stable or natural. Racism metastasizes and changes over time, changing the ways that race is thought about and implemented in the US. For the last few decades, the Census has been one way to try to observe and track the symptoms…
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Harry Potter and the mistaken myth of the Mixed-Race messiah Paper presented at the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois 2012-11-03 6 pages Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The Harry Potter franchise has worldwide popularity. Contained within Harry Potter are popular stories about Mixed-Race, both appealing and toxic. Harry Potter and…
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For the Movement: Community Education Supporting Multiracial Organizing Equity & Excellence in Education Volume 38, Issue 2, 2005 pages 145-154 DOI: 10.1080/10665680590935124 Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst The multiracial people’s movement in the United States has expanded significantly in the last 10 years (Douglass, 2003). Historically, community-based education programs have supported social movements in…
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Census Bureau Names Eric Hamako to National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations United States Census Bureau News Release CB12-R.33 2012-10-12 The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the establishment of the National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations and has named Eric Hamako as a member of the committee. The…
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A few questions from CMRS 2012 Two or More: Mixed thoughts about the Census NAC 2012-11-18 Eric Hamako Eric Hamako is one of 32 members of the United States Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee (NAC) on Race, Ethnic, and Other Populations, 2012-2014. This blog is intended to 1) share updates and Eric’s perspectives on the…
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News from the 2012 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Business Meeting 2012-11-13 Camilla Fojas, (CMRS 2012 organizer) Associate Professor and Chair Latin American and Latino Studies DePaul University Laura Kina, (Mixed Roots Midwest 2012 co-organizer) Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University Photo of Eric Hamako at CMRS 2012…
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Mixed Race on Campus: Multiracial Student Identities and Issues in Higher Education NCORE 2011 24 Annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education San Francisco, California 2011-05-31 through 2011-06-04 Thursday, 2011-06-02, 13:15–16:15 PDT (Local Time) Eric Hamako, Doctoral Candidate Social Justice Education Program University of Massachusetts, Amherst Multiracial and Mixed‑Race students are…
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Mixed Race Week begins with Loving Day awareness dinner Today@Colorado State Colorado State University 2011-03-30 This Friday, Apr. 1, marks the beginning of the 3rd-annual Mixed Race Week, a series of presentations and activities celebrating the multiracial and interracial community at Colorado State University. The yearly event is put on by Shades of CSU, an…
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Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else? Mixed-Race in Science Fiction Movies New York University Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center 50 West 4th Street New York, New York 2011-03-28, 18:00-19:30 EDT (Local TIme) Eric Hamako University of Massachusetts, Amherst Join BAMSA, The Center, and the A/P/A Institute for another installment of the Multiple Identity Speaker Series: Monsters,…
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Sci fi offers surprising insights on race The Brandeis Hoot 2009-03-06 Marissa Lainzi Months and months of wading through red ink, volleying e-mails, coordinating, coordinating, and coordinating came to fruition for the Mixed Heritage Club on Friday night, as their much-anticipated speaker, Eric Hamako, gave the talk, “Monsters, Messiahs, or Something Else?” a discussion of…