Tag: Multiracial

“Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.” — Galatians 3:28 Awaken Sunday We are closing out our 21 Days of Prayer journey with a special Awaken Sunday focused on familie...

When I was little, I was fortunate to spend lots of time with both sides of my mixed heritage. With my Latvian grandmother. I learned how to play the violin, sing Latvian nursery rhymes, and solve puzzles. I watched my father converse in a language that I didn’t understand, but felt complet...

Cristina Diaz (one of my RAs & the Mixed Student Union President here at UC San Diego) and I created a survey item to assess the degree to which Multiracial & Multiethnic undergraduate students feel a part of their identity hasn’t been considered in the opportunities offered to them wh...

This week, we’re sharing our interview with Hannah H. Kim, a recent Stanford Ph.D. graduate, who wrote an op-ed in The Stanford Daily about multiracialism or the discussion of identifying as more than one race. Kim, who identifies as Korean American and was born in the U.S., beg...

UCSD’s Mixed Student Union believe offering a “Multiracial” category should be part of the solution. In fact, in Spring 2021, we (along with my my independent study lab) successfully had the subject pool here in UCSD’s Psych department add a Multiracial option, a disaggregate...

Some hair is harder to work with than others. This is an unfortunate truth that many people of colour face on a daily basis. This can be even more intense for multiracial people, as their hair may function and grow in an unusual way compared to their parents and ancestors. I’m lucky enough tha...

Raising awareness of this issue which obstructs multiracial students from experiencing the wholeness of who they are in higher education Most multiracial & multiethnic respondents indicated that erasure is an issue they’ve dealt with in college, χ2(1, N = 104) = 30.15, p < .001, ...

Preliminary Data [Pre-PrePrint] 1. Interracial couples are more likely to be interreligious, and interracial couples have multiracial children. 2. Thus, it follows that multiracial individuals should be more likely to grow up in households where their parents are different religions. 3. Mor...

Was I an American? A Mexican? A Filipino? I had relatives from more than one culture, from different parts of the country as well as different parts of the world. They looked different than I did. A few had my complexion. Or my hair. Or my frame. But no one looked quite like me. My only...