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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Tag: Maria Root
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For the first time ever, Dr. Maria Root reads her Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage on video.
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Well, I’ve always joked that it was channeled to me. [Be]cause it was very easy. But it was after talking, just talking with people. That’s what people told me. So I wrote it down. You know, I organized, wrote it down. It was really given to me by the people. And that’s why I’ve always…
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Experiences and Processes Affecting Racial Identity Development: Preliminary Results From the Biracial Sibling Project Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology (formerly Cultural Diversity and Mental Health) Volume 4, Issue 3, August 1998 Pages 237-247 DOI: 10.1037/1099-9809.4.3.237 Maria P. P. Root, Ph.D. Examined what drives the process of racial identity development in general for persons of…
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This is who I am: Defining mixed-race identity The Seattle Times 2008-09-28 Lornet Turnbull, Seattle Times staff The story of race in the U.S. is changing, and so is the way many of us identify ourselves. That’s especially true in the Seattle area, which has a higher concentration of mixed-race people than any other metro…
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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.