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: Wellesley Centers for Women
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An Intimate Look at Race: Growing Up Biracial in a Racially Torn World Wellesley Centers for Women Book Reading \ Panel \ Conversation with Author Sil Lai Abrams Clapp Library, Lecture Room Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley, Massachusetts Tuesday, 2016-10-25, 16:30-17:00 EST (Local Time) Presenters: Author Sil Lai Abrams with Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., Layli…
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Mixed Ancestry Racial/Ethnic Identity Development (MAREID) Model Wellesley Centers for Women 2003 Peony Fhagen-Smith, Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts To date no theoretical work on racial/ethnic identity development adequately provides a framework for explaining current empirical findings concerning racial/ethnic identification among mixed ancestry youth. This paper reviews current research on the mixed…
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Examining Mixed-Ancestry Identity in Adolescents Wellesley Centers for Women Research & Action Report Fall/Winter 2008 Two years ago, scholars at the Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) launched a study of racial and ethnic identification among adolescents of mixed ancestry. The reasons for pursuing the research were several. Most literature about ethnic/racial self-identification patterns derived from…
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Complexities in Researching Mixed Ancestry Adolescents: A Preliminary Study Wellesley Centers for Women 2004 Michelle Porche Peony Fhagen-Smith, Assistant Professor of Psychology Wheaton College, Norton Massachusetts Jo H. Kim Heidie A. Vázquez García Allison J. Tracy Sumru Erkut Contemporary events, such as the change in the 2000 U.S. Census, highlight the need for a better…