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: Angela Saini
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Genetics does not recognise race as a biologically meaningful concept, but that doesn’t stop racists invoking its findings.
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“Often race is used as a variable without people really defining it biologically, and that is a very minimum we should expect from a scientific variable that you’ll be able to define it biologically. They just treat these social categories as though they are biological without really doing the legwork to figure out why that…
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A look at the re-emergence of ‘scientific’ attempts to explain perceived racial differences
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Science journalist and author Angela Saini tackled the question of why science continues to be plagued by ideas of race.
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If anything, the public debate around race and science has sunk into the mud. To state even the undeniable fact that we are one human species today means falling afoul of a cabal of conspiracy theorists. The “race realists,” as they call themselves online, join the growing ranks of climate change deniers, anti-vaxxers and flat-earthers…
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The author of “Superior: The Return of Race Science” knows this from firsthand experience
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Saini is now an award-winning science journalist, often reporting on the intersection of science, race and gender. Her latest book, “Superior: The Return of Race Science,” tracks the history and ideology of race science up to its current resurgence.
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…science journalist Angela Saini’s third book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, makes the compelling case that scientific racism is as prevalent as it has ever been, and explores the way such backward beliefs have continued to evolve and persist.
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A Q&A with Angela Saini