Mixed Race Studies

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  • What You’ll Never Understand About Being Biracial

    Mixed-race women on what it’s like to feel black but look white.

  • How do people with multiracial (or multicultural) backgrounds navigate their social identity?

    In this episode, I talk with Dr. Sarah Gaither, Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University in the USA. In this conversation, we focus on Sarah’s work on understanding multiracial identities and the costs and benefits of navigating that social terrain.

  • How Biracial Identity Affects Behavior

    Guest host Phoebe Judge talks with psychology and neuroscience professor Sarah Gaither about biracial identity and behavior.

  • What Biracial People Know

    After the nation’s first black president, we now have a white president with the whitest and malest cabinet since Ronald Reagan’s. His administration immediately made it a priority to deport undocumented immigrants and to deny people from certain Muslim-majority nations entry into the United States, decisions that caused tremendous blowback.

  • Priming White identity elicits stereotype boost for biracial Black-White individuals

    Psychological threat experienced by students of negatively stereotyped groups impairs test performance. However, stereotype boost can also occur if a positively stereotyped identity is made salient. Biracial individuals, whose racial identities may be associated with both negative and positive testing abilities, have not been examined in this context. Sixty-four biracial Black-White individuals wrote about either…

  • The Psychological Advantages of Strongly Identifying As Biracial

    The Psychological Advantages of Strongly Identifying As Biracial New York Magazine 2015-05-22 Lisa Miller As I reported in the most recent issue of New York, a new program at an elite private school in New York aims to combat racism by dividing young children, some as young as 8 years old, into “affinity groups” according…

  • “Mixed” Results: Multiracial Research and Identity Explorations

    Multiracial individuals report that the social pressure of having to “choose” one of their racial groups is a primary source of psychological conflict. Yet because of their ability to maneuver among their multiple identities, multiracials also adopt flexible cognitive strategies in dealing with their social environments—demonstrating a benefit to having multiple racial identities.

  • Thinking Outside the Box: Multiple Identity Mind-Sets Affect Creative Problem Solving

    Thinking Outside the Box: Multiple Identity Mind-Sets Affect Creative Problem Solving Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2015-01-27 DOI: 10.1177/1948550614568866 Sarah E. Gaither, Provost’s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Jessica D. Remedios, Assistant Professor of Psychology Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Diana T. Sanchez, Associate Professor of Psychology Rutgers,…

  • Caught in the Middle: Defensive Responses to IAT Feedback Among Whites, Blacks, and Biracial Black/Whites

    Caught in the Middle: Defensive Responses to IAT Feedback Among Whites, Blacks, and Biracial Black/Whites Social Psychological and Personality Science Published online before print: 2014-12-15 DOI: 10.1177/1948550614561127 Jennifer L. Howell Department of Psychology University of Florida Sarah E. Gaither, Provost’s Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Scholar Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture University of…

  • Collaboration is Key to Psychology Professor Sam Sommers’ Research on Race and Ethnicity

    Collaboration is Key to Psychology Professor Sam Sommers’ Research on Race and Ethnicity Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts School of Arts And Sciences August 2013 Anna Burgess Doctoral Student Sarah Gaither and a Team of Undergraduates Focus on Biracial Perceptions and Identity Flexibility “As a society, the way we think about questions of race and ethnicity…