Mixed In Different Shades

exploring the history and experiences of mixed heritage persons and inter-racial relationships across the world

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1   Link   Inter-racial attitudes and interactions in racially-mixed low-income neighbourhoods in Cape Town, South Africa | Centre for Social Science Research
This paper examines a different and more unusual set of people living in racially-integrated residential neighbourhoods: low-income coloured and African people living in atypical new public housing projects, where state-subsidised houses were (unusually) allocated so as to create a mixed neighbourhood.
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2   Link   Multiracial Children | American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Publicity surrounding prominent Americans of mixed cultural heritage, such as athletes, actors, musicians, and politicians, has highlighted the issues of multicultural individuals and challenged long-standing views of race. However, despite some changes in laws and evolving social attitudes, multiracial children still face significant challenges.
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3   Link   Measuring Inter-racial Friendships: Experimental Comparisons
Studies of inter-racial contacts in general and of cross-race
friendships in particular have noted substantial discrepancies in
the reported levels of black-white socializing (Sigelman, Bledsoe,
Welch, and Combs, 1996; Ellison and Powers, 1994)
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4   Link   Inter-racial Contact and the Own-race Bias
Own-race bias, where people are more accurate recognizing faces of people from their own race than
other races, can lead to misidentification and, in some cases, innocent people being convicted. This
bias was explored in South Africa and England, using Black and White participants. People were
shown several photographs of Black and White faces and were later asked if they had seen these
faces (and several fillers).
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