The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies (JCMRS) is a peer‑reviewed, open‑access interdisciplinary journal dedicated to advancing the field of Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) through rigorous scholarship, creative expression, and community‑engaged inquiry.

Our mission is to:

• Support the production and dissemination of high‑quality scholarship that critically interrogates race, mixedness, and the systems that shape racialization.
• Provide an accessible, no‑cost platform for scholars, artists, practitioners, and community researchers around the world.
• Foster interdisciplinary, transnational, and justice‑oriented dialogues that link theory, practice, creativity, and lived experience.
• Uplift emerging scholars and underrepresented voices in the field.
• Honor the intellectual, artistic, and community‑driven legacies foundational to Critical Mixed Race Studies while imagining liberatory futures.

Scope: 

JCMRS is transdisciplinary, transnational, and committed to examining mixedness as a critical lens through which to understand power, identity, embodiment, and social transformation. The journal welcomes work that:

• Critically analyzes the cultural, political, legal, and institutional processes that construct and regulate race.
• Explores the constructed, mutable, and porous nature of racial categories and the lived realities of racial mixture.
• Examines local and global systems of racialization, colonialism, migration, and social stratification.
• Advances concepts such as monoracism, border‑making, racial fluidity, and relationality.
• Engages creative, artistic, methodological, and community‑based approaches.

Our scope includes scholarly research, theoretical interventions, creative writing, visual art, methodological innovation, dialogues, and applied/practitioner work.

History of the Journal: 

In 2004, UC Santa Barbara sociology graduate student Josef Castañeda-Liles approached mixed race studies scholars G. Reginald Daniel, Paul Spickard, and Maria P.P. Root about founding a print Journal of Multiracial Studies. However, their idea would have to wait until the advent of online open-access peer-reviewed journals in order to become a reality. Launched in 2011, following the inaugural 2010 Critical Mixed Race Studies conference (held at DePaul University Nov 5-6, 2010 and organized by Camilla Fojas, Laura Kina, and Wei Ming Dariotis), JCMRS is the first academic journal explicitly focused on critical mixed race studies. JCMRS was founded by G. Reginald Daniel, Wei Ming Dariotis, Laura Kina, and Paul Spickard.

The goal of JCMRS is to become a central home for scholarship, creativity, and conversations shaping the field of Critical Mixed Race Studies. Our 2026 relaunch of the journal honors:

• The visionary editorial leadership and scholarship of Dr. G. Reginald Daniel, whose passing deeply impacted the community.
• The foundational creative, organizational, and intellectual work of Dr. Laura Kina, whose commitment to integrating visual arts and cultural work built the journal’s unique character.
• The transitional leadership of Dr. Alyssa Newman, who guided the journal through a challenging period and helped prepare it for renewal.

Today, JCMRS continues to expand its interdisciplinary reach, deepen its commitments to justice and creativity, and serve as a global hub for critical mixed race studies.