Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- 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.
- Frederick Douglass, A Life in American History
- In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own
- Contested Bodies: Pregnancy, Childrearing, and Slavery in Jamaica
- On Turning Black
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Tag: American Psychological Association
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A psychology grad student shares what she’s learned from her research on multiracial adolescents and adults.
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Often Misidentified, Multiracial People Value Accurate Perceptions American Psychological Association Press Releases 2013-08-02 Average American has trouble identifying multiracial people, research finds HONOLULU — Multiracial people may be misidentified more often as being white than black and may value being accurately identified more so than single-race individuals, according to research presented at APA’s 121st Annual…
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Ecological Framework for Understanding Multiracial Identity Development American Psychological Association 2002 1 page (chart) Maria P. P. Root A graphical representation of the factors involved in multiracial identity development. View the chart here.