Critical Mixed Race Studies

Mission

It is our mission to advance Critical Mixed Race Studies as an academic discipline and a professional field committed to excellence in teaching, research and service to the community.

Goal

It is our goal to develop curriculum at all grade levels; to develop resources with community organizations; to increase and disperse knowledge through conferences, summer institutes, workshops, professional contacts, reports, papers, discussions, and publications; and to support an anti-racist mixed heritage movement.

Vision

We envision a world in which students at all grade levels receive accurate and significant information about the history, cultural productions, psychology, health, religious studies, politics, and sociology of people, families and communities of mixed heritage.

We envision a world in which Critical Mixed Race Studies generates intersections between Ethnic studies, Queer theory, Feminist theory, Critical Race theory and other academic disciplines: Literary, Cultural, Sociology, Psychology, History, Anthropology, Health, American, “Area” and other related studies in local, national, international and transnational contexts.

Values

We value what can be learned through the critical study of mixed race people, their experiences, their cultural productions, and the social, political, historical, legal, and economic forces that shape the world in which their experiences and identities are constructed.

We value the transformation of ideologies around race and identity through this study.

We value the difference that teachers can make at all grade levels by incorporating Critical Mixed Race Studies into their curriculum and that community organizations can provide by serving with an awareness of Critical Mixed Race Studies.