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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To an escalating degree over my adult life, I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness.
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My whole life, my mother told me, ‘Always remember — you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.’
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Identity angst is a luxury of the privileged. And I was privileged. And I was/am angst. The fact that I have time space and a vocabulary to tease out my own relationship to race and represent Asian, and to lobby for more gender equity or fight for diversity in Western media and culture, means that…
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And Other Adventures in Internalized Racism
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Kamala Harris, Birtherism, Race and the Unscrupulous, Sinister Antics of the Far Right! Medium 2019-07-04 Elwood Watson, Professor of History, African American Studies and Gender Studies East Tennessee State University Now that she has emerged as a serious contender for the 2020 democratic nomination for president, Kamala Harris has come under attack from a number…
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For A., C., C., J., and S., who see the beauty in me.
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I am an American, just like you.