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.

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To Be or Not to Be (Black or Multiracial or White): Cultural Variation in Racial Boundaries

2017-09-20

Culture shapes the meaning of race and, consequently, who is placed into which racial categories. Three experiments conducted in the United States and Brazil illustrated the cultural nature of racial categorization.