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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How To Be A Black Girl Thought Catalog 2014-12-03 Carmen Molina Chicago, Illinois I will always feel a little strange calling myself a black girl. Whenever I am at a party or somewhere where there are new people to meet, the question that every mixed girl gets asked at least once a week, every week,…
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When You Grow Up Mixed Race Thought Catalog 2015-12-11 Evicka Chang Growing up mixed-race is confusing. It wasn’t until my third year of University when the theory of hybridity was introduced in a Lit Theory class that I even began to consider the complexities of my own existence. It was also then that I started…
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What It’s Like To Be Half-Japanese Thought Catalog 2014-10-08 Michelle Reimann Eurasian, half-Japanese, bi-racial, mixed race, hafu, hapa, double, hybrid, dual culture, TCK (third culture kid,) the axis of evil (yeah, yeah: I am German and Japanese, get over it.) However you choose to describe me my lineage is often one of the most frequently…