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: The Guardian
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Two years ago I discovered I was not related to my white father. Now, I intend to find out the origins of my blackness
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Don’t underestimate the symbolism of a royal marriage. From now on, it will be impossible to argue that being black is somehow incompatible with being British
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The books interview: the bestselling US author on family, fitting in and giving a voice to those without power in her new book, “Little Fires Everywhere”
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Miranda Kaufmann’s account of the lives of 10 black people who made their homes in Tudor England sheds new light on our island’s story
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A white identity was constructed for me 25 years ago and unravelling it feels like a Sisyphean task
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I still have yet to uncover the full truth behind my heritage, but now feel that living in a racial no man’s land can actually be fun
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I always thought I was mixed race until someone at school called me black. That started me thinking about racial identity