Mixed Race Studies

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

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University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Special Research Collection

2022-08-25

G. Reginald Daniel, UCSB Professor of Sociology and member of the Advisory Board of MASC (Multiracial Americans of Southern California), and Paul Spickard, UCSB Professor of History, in coordination with Danelle Moon, Head of UCSB Library Special Research Collection, have been collecting primary documents from support and educational organizations involved in the multiracial movement, particularly…
Born Biracial: How One Mother Took On Race in America

2019-04-27

The Birth of a National Civil Rights Movement
The Multiracial Option: A Step in the White Direction

2018-04-22

This Note argues that based on the history of racial classifications in the United States and existing motivations to maintain the white majority, the push for a multiracial category functions as a means by which mixed race individuals can join the ranks of whiteness.
The participating organizations from across the country reached a consensus that a “check one or more box” format rather than a separate multiracial identifier would serve the highest community good.

2014-07-25

“The participating organizations [of the Third Multiracial Leadership Conference in October 1997] from across the country reached a consensus that a “check one or more box” format rather than a separate multiracial identifier would serve the highest community good. It would: a) allow for the celebration of diverse heritages; b) support the continued monitoring of…
“Founding Mothers:” White Mothers of Biracial Children in the Multiracial Movement (1979-2000)

2013-03-28

“Founding Mothers:” White Mothers of Biracial Children in the Multiracial Movement (1979-2000) Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut April 2012 142 pages Alicia Doo Castagno A thesis submitted to the faculty of Wesleyan University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Departmental Honors in American Studies TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements…
The Privilege of Denial

2013-03-23

The Privilege of Denial all things beautiful 2012-09-19 Alyssa Bacon-Liu I remember doing what’s called a Privilege Walk during my freshman year of college. There was a group of us and we stood in a line and we were given instructions. You had to take steps forward or steps back depending on how you answered…
Shame on CNN: A commentary by Susan Graham

2012-12-11

Shame on CNN: A commentary by Susan Graham Project RACE 2012-12-10 Susan Graham, Executive Director CNN aired a show hosted by Soledad O’Brien Sunday called “Who is Black in America?” I have been disgusted with the public misunderstanding of multiracial people on so called news shows in the past, but this one wins the prize…
I’m not about to have my children check more than one box only to be relegated back to the black category…

2012-09-28

“I’m not about to have my children check more than one box only to be relegated back to the black category,” said [Susan] Graham [of Project RACE]… She left the race question blank. Jonathan Tilove, “Will new age of mixed-race identities loosen the hold of race or tie it up in tighter knots?” Newhouse News…
The fact that you can deny white privilege is actually the most incriminating evidence of the fact that you have it.

2012-09-21

She [Susan Graham of Project RACE] cannot claim to be the voice of racial minorities without acknowledging the ways she (as a white person) benefits from the system that makes multiracial advocacy necessary in the first place. As a biracial person, it is completely unacceptable to me that someone who claims to be an advocate…
but her continual reliance on white privileged forms of advocacy and expression were her political undoing.

2012-09-21

In the end, although Project RACE’s political advocacy facilitated other multiracial groups’ participation in the OMB discussions for the 2000 census, [Susan] Graham was eventually shut out of the process. Her position as a white woman campaigning for multiracial interests proved to be unappealing to too many, and her uncompromising stance distanced her from more…

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