Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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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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Tag: Sharon Chang
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Diving Into Race, Identity of Multiracial Families In ‘Raising Mixed Race’ NBC News 2015-12-31 Frances Kai-Hwa Wang Sharon H. Chang’s son with a copy of Kip Fulbeck’s “Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids.” Photograph Courtesy of Sharon H. Chang Scholar and activist Sharon H. Chang’s new book, “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial…
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Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children The Seattle Globalist 2015-12-09 Sharon H. Chang The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race. Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race,…
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Virtual release party for ‘Raising Mixed Race’ – December 11th, 2015 Facebook Release Party 2015-12-11, 17:30-21:30Z (09:30-13:30 PST) Join us for giveaways, Q&A, discussion, and much more as we celebrate the launch of Raising Mixed Race. Publishing in December 2015, Raising Mixed Race by Sharon Chang is the first book to examine the complex task…
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I’ve been reading a new book by Sharon H. Chang called “Raising Mixed Race.” You might remember Sharon, a Seattle-based writer and scholar, from her guest post A Multiracial Asian Mom Wonders How Her Son Will See Himself (Routledge 2015). With chapter titles that are analogies to home construction (Foundation, Framing, Wiring, etc.), the book…
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“Children of color in general either tend to get left out of school curriculum and societal teachings or hyper-visibilized in negative, harmful ways. Multiracial kids—since mixed race is still not often considered a “legitimate” group (by both whites and people of color alike)—often experience an added layer of invisibility that is so damaging for their…
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Parents (of multiracial kids) Just Don’t Understand AsAmNews 2015-12-03 Alice Wong Talking about race is complicated enough but how do parents of multiracial Asian American children talk to their kids about race and racial identity? What are the experiences of multiracial Asian American children? What’s missing in the media representations of multiracial kids? Writer, scholar…