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: Sharon H. Chang
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“What Are You?” That’s None of Your Business Multiracial Asian Families 2015-03-20 Sharon H. Chang A couple months ago I got cornered big time by a stranger and their “What are you?” mind-meld. The unsolicited probing went on for a while. Honestly something I’m used to. But this time was crazy multidimensional and unique in…
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Baby Gammy and the Sexual Politics of Mixed Race Asians Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2015-02-25 Sharon H. Chang A couple years ago young Thai mother Pattaramon Chanbua agreed to be a surrogate for Australian couple David and Wendy Farnell. It was a disaster. Last week…
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Reflections on the 2014 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference Multiracial Asian Families: thinking about race, families, children, and the intersection of mixed ID/Asian 2014-11-16 Sharon H. Chang Ah. Where do I begin. I’m sitting on a plane waiting to takeoff to Seattle (correction, taking off) thinking on my last 3 days in Chicago at the…
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Why Mixed with White isn’t White Hyphen: Asian America Unabrided 2014-07-22 Sharon H. Chang When I wrote my first post for Hyphen, “Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children,” I was deliberately blunt about race. I wrote about how I don’t tell my multiracial son, who presents as a racial minority, that he’s white — but…
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“Hafu” an AMAZING Start But We Need to Go Deeper Multiracial Asian Families 2014-05-20 Sharon Chang About a week ago I had the chance to do something I’ve been wanting to do (and bugging the filmmakers about for a long time)—finally go to a local screening of the documentary Hafu, meaning “half,” which represents 5…
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Talking Mixed-Race Identity with Young Children Hyphen—Asian Americans Unabridged 2014-05-06 Sharon H. Chang “Mom, am I White?” A few weeks ago, when I got this question from my four-year-old, I wasn’t sure what to say. Technically my son is “biracial” — but that label does him a severe representative injustice, because his bloodline is actually…
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2 Hapa Parents and 19 Hapa artists: Our Visit to War Baby / Love Child at the Wing Luke Multiracial Asian Families: Parenting around race, ethnicity and what it means to be mixed Asian Sunday, 2014-01-12 Sharon H Chang Cold, rain. Gray-stained morning. Husband and I are sitting in the car at 5 till, draining…