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
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- Call for Proposals: 2026 Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference at UCLA
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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.
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Hapa Capsulizes Painful Moments from 2016 Asian America in Less than 90 Seconds AsAmNews 2016-11-27 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent A popular new video out less than a week freezes in time moments in 2016 that highlight the racism and the persistent whitewashing the Asian American community faced throughout the year. The short A-woke is…
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“…interracial relationships and interracial marriages are anything but color-blind. Yes, there is love, but that love is tinged and affected by the history of colonialism, skin color hierarchy, White racial privilege, unequal economic opportunity and by racist/sexist imageries that define the politics of sexual desire and acceptability.” —Larry Hajime Shinagawa Karen Ye, “Love Sees No…
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Hapas Soon to Be the Majority in the Japanese American Community AsAmNews: Where the conversation about Asian America Begins 2016-04-16 Louis Chan, AsAmNews National Correspondent The future is now in the Japanese American community. By 2020, just four years away, demographers says the majority of Japanese Americans will be multiracial/multiethnic. A new exhibition now at…
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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…
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One-sided Biracial TV Families– Why Are So Many Asian Moms MIA? AsAmNews 2015-08-05 Laylita Day I started to notice a disturbing trend among certain TV shows. Each one featured a biracial character, specifically a woman who had an Asian mom and White dad. The disturbing part of this was the fact that none of the…