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: Shannon Luders-Manuel
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In a lost photo, I found the memory of my dad I wanted to preserve.
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Celebrating the 1st Annual Mixed Heritage Day at Dodger Stadium (not) Mixed (up): A Biracial Swirl in a Black and White World 2016-08-28 Shannon Luders-Manuel What happens when a young, mixed race boy asks his mother what ethnic day is meant for him? The Los Angeles Dodgers have special days for certain ethnicities, but none celebrating mixed…
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Blackness cannot be taken away from us. Biraciality cannot be taken away from us. They exist as tangibly as our skin, made from Europe and Africa. We are the colonizer and the colonized. We are the oppressor and the oppressed. We bleed for our brothers and sisters. We carry on our backs the weight of…
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When Skin Privilege and Racial Belonging Collide (not) Mixed (up): A Biracial Swirl in a Black and White World 2016-01-25 Shannon Luders-Manuel I’ve been thinking a lot about color / race privilege and why it’s such a hot button issue for the biracial community. In a Facebook group that I moderate, for mixed race women…
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On Taye Diggs and Reckoning with the Changing Realities of Race in America For Harriet 2015-11-24 Shannon Luders-Manuel My father was a proud paralegal for the NAACP back in the 80s and 90s. He marched in rallies for race equality and was actively involved in uplifting the Black community. When I was growing up, he…
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My Response to Critics Regarding My For Harriet Article about Mixed Race Identity I’m Not Mixed Up, I’m Fully Mixed 2015-08-15 Shannon Luders-Manuel On Wednesday, For Harriet published my article “What it Means to be Mixed Race During the Fight for Black Lives.” It quickly took off and has received over 23,000 Facebook shares/likes by…
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Most of the time I see myself as mixed, but when I see black men and women brutalized or killed for breathing while black, I’m black, and proudly, viscerally so. Shannon Luders-Manuel, “What it Means to be Mixed Race During the Fight for Black Lives,” For Harriet, August 12, 2015. http://www.forharriet.com/2015/08/what-it-means-to-be-mixed-race-during.html.
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When I talk about my family culture, I’m mixed. When I talk about racism, I’m black. When Trayvon Martin was shot for wearing a hoodie, I was black. When Eric Garner was choked to death for selling cigarettes on the street, I was black. When Sandra Bland was arrested for failing to turn on her…