All Mixed Up: What Do We Call People Of Multiple Backgrounds?
By: Leah Donnella // NPR
Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above
By: Susan Saulny // NYT
Multiracial in America : Proud, Diverse and Growing in Numbers
By: Pew Research Study
Obama and the Future of Mixed-Race and Multiracial America
By: Heidi Durrow // Huffington Post
What it Means to be Mixed Race During the Fight for Black Lives
By: Shannon Luders-Manuel // For Harriet
Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies
The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online journal dedicated to Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS). Launched in 2011, it is the first academic journal explicitly focused on Critical Mixed Race Studies.
Sponsored by UC Santa Barbara's Sociology Department, JCMRS is hosted on the eScholarship Repository, which is part of the eScholarship initiative of the California Digital Library.
Critical Race Theory: An Introduction
Edited By: Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic
This in an introduction to the book Critical Race Theory, which is an overview for the subject of CRT. I've also attached a link to Chapter 17 from the book's first edition "The Social Construction of Race".
By: Kelly F. Jackson, Hyung Chol (Brandon) Yoo, Rudy Guevarra, and Blair A. Harrington
This study examined relations between perceived racial discrimination, multiracial identity integration (i.e., racial distance and racial conflict), and psychological adjustment (i.e., distress symptoms, positive affect, and negative affect) of 263 multiracial adults, using an online cross-sectional survey design. As hypothesized, higher levels of perceived racial discrimination was related to lower levels of psychological adjustment (i.e., higher distress symptoms and negative affect). Also, higher levels of multiracial identity integration with low racial conflict was related to higher levels of psychological adjustment (i.e., lower distress symptoms and negative affect), whereas higher levels of multiracial identity integration with low racial distance was related to higher levels of psychological adjustment (i.e., lower negative affect). Finally, multiracial identity integration (i.e., lower racial conflict) moderated the relationship between perceived racial discrimination and psychological adjustment (i.e., negative affect) with results suggesting multiracial identity integration related to low racial conflict buffers the negative effects of perceived racial discrimination on psychological adjustment. Findings from this study are discussed in terms of future research on the psychological well-being of multiracial individuals and implications for clinical practice with multiracial adults.
Studying “Mixed Race”: Reflections on Methodological Practice
By: Jillian Paragg
In this article, I reflexively consider how three experiences from conducting an interview project with Canadian young adults of mixed race can lead to questions about methodological practice in “mixed race” research. These three experiences also have implications for theorizing mixed race identity. First, in the study, respondents complicated their hailing (Althusser, 2000) as mixed race through responding to a recruitment ad that used that term, but revealed in the interview that they did not actually self-identify as mixed race. Second, the space of the interview enabled me to ask respondents probing questions to “think through” the operation of race in their everyday lives. Third, the complex dynamic of “insider/outsider” between the respondents and myself (through my own identity as mixed race) was foregrounded throughout the research process, signaling complex commonalities between the researcher and research participants.
Visualizing a Critical Mixed-Race Theory
By: Desiree Valentine
In this paper, questions regarding the cultural understanding of mixed race are explored, which have the ability to complicate the accepted portrayal of race in society as a black/white binary system. Thus, the acknowledgement of something other than this binary system offers new ways of theorizing about race, particularly concerning the sociopolitical implications of mixed-race designation. This paper argues that the visually mixed-race person has a certain direct ability to challenge the binary and its racist logic. Furthermore, this paper goes on to offer a unique interpretation of where power for working against a racially oppressive system lies within critical mixed-race theory.