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        Our Stories, Our Experiences: Defining who we are      

 


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KIP FULBECK, artist, spoken word performer, slam poet and professor                                                                        
D.O.B.: 04/30/1965 (Taurus)

Mother: Chinese

Father: English/Irish

On being mixed:

“Identity is this conscious, it’s an ongoing process,” he told CNN’s Betty Nguyen. “The ‘who we are’ and ‘what we are question’, we think about iteveryday…people say, ‘Have you gone back to China?’ I’ve gone to China, I can’t go back to China… they’re like ‘What’s it like?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m an American – what do you think?’

 I grew up in an entirely Chinese household. My siblings are entirely, full-blooded Chinese from China so I grew up as like, the white kid, and when I went to school, I was known as the Asian kid.

Interesting Fact:

  • He has directed twelve films (including Banana Split; Some Questions for 28 Kisses; Sex, Love, & Kung Fu; and Lilo & Me)
     

  • Fulbeck's first book, a fictional autobiography entitled Paper Bullets was published in 2001 by the University of Washington Press. His second, a photographic book entitled Part Asian, 100% Hapa was published in 2006 by Chronicle Books

 

 
 

 

 
 

ENRIQUE IGLESIAS, Singer                                                                                                
D.O.B.: 05/08/1975 (Taurus)

Mother: Filipino

Father: Spanish
On being mixed:

"Though I was born in Madrid, my being a Filipino is very strong in me," says Enrique. "When I was growing up, my mom (Isabel Preysler) would always talk about the Philippines. She taught us the things that are very important to Filipino culture such as family, being hospitable to guests, and fear of God."

 
 

 

 

KIMORA LEE, Model/Author/President of Phat Fashions                                                   D.O.B.: 05/04/1975 (Taurus)

Mother: Japanese, born in Korea

Father: African-American
On her mixed background:

"I was 5 foot 11 inches in the fourth grade," she told Harper's Bazaar. "When you're in the fourth grade, that means weirdo. I was the ugly duckling of the family. It was always, 'You're too tall ... no one looks like you culturally ... no one's hair lies like yours ... where do you fit in?'"

On self-acceptance: "When your first job is Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld is your mentor, it makes for an easy transition. Suddenly, there was acceptance: Maybe it's not so bad to look like this, have lips like this or skin color like this. It did a lot for my self-esteem, as it would for any child who was in that kind of situation, where everything that was so wrong suddenly became so right."

 

 
 

 

 
ROSARIO DAWSON, Actress                                                                                       D.O.B.: 05/09/79 (Taurus)
Mother: Puerto Rican & Afro-Cuban

Father: Native American & Irish
On her mixed background:

"[Race] wasn't an issue for me until I got older and it became an issue for other people," she told Marie Clarie magazine. "When I got the role of Roxane in Alexander, some people got really upset, like, 'Why did they hire a black girl?' Meanwhile, my friend who is Afghani said, 'You look just like my family, so I don't understand what people are so upset about.' Sometimes people say weird things, like, 'I don't understand why she just doesn't say she's black ‑- Puerto Ricans aren't that brown!'"

 

 
 

 

 
DWAYNE "The Rock" JOHNSON, Actor/Wrestler/Athlete                                                 D.O.B.:05/02/1972 (Taurus)
Mother: Samoan

Father: Black Canadian (Nova Scotian)
On his mixed background:

Johnson is very proud of his mixed heritage and of being viewed as a role model by other people multi-ethnic people. "There's a sense of responsibility that not only I have as an actor, but we all have as human beings," he told the Honululu Advertiser. "And especially, being 'ethnic.' So yeah, I take it very serious. It's very important to me. I'm very proud of what I am. That'll never change. We can change a lot of things. I cannot change. I can't change the color of my skin, and neither can you."
 
 

 

 
JESSICA ALBA, Actress                                                                                                         D.O.B.: 04/28/81 (Taurus)
Mother: Danish, French-Canadian

Father: Mexican-America
 On her mixed background: 

"I was always trying to figure out: How the hell am I going to be mainstream?," She told Latina.  "How are people going to accept me? When are [they] going to get a clue that I am American, that this is what America looks like--people like me who are mixed, have different blood, mixed with different ethnicities? When are the people who are hiring for these jobs and writing these screenplays going to realize that?"

“My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, … So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don’t speak Spanish. So, to say that I’m a Latin actress, OK, but it’s not fitting; it would be insincere.”

Interesting Fact:

As a child, she suffered from a list of maladies including obsessive-compulsive disorder, collapsed lung (twice), pneumonia 4-5x a year, a ruptured appendix and a tonsillar cyst.

 
 


 

 
CHERYL BURKE, Professional Dancer          
                                                                              
D.O.B. 05/03/1984(Taurus)
Mother: Filipina

Father: American born of Russian and Irish descent

Interesting fact:
  • She is best known for being the first two-time champion of ABC's American version of Dancing with the Stars
 

 

 
DENYCE LAWTON, Model/Actress                                                                                     
D.O.B.: 05/02/1978 (Taurus)
Mother: Korean

Father: African-American
On her mixed background:

"People didn't know how to react to a light skinned Black girl with a lot of crazy hair and "Chinky" eyes," she told HalfKorean.com. "I still get it a little but not by Black people anymore; more so by some Koreans. Other ethnicities are more so intrigued by the mixture."

Lawton says she never had identity issues, however, she admits, " I used to wish I had more Asian features sometimes and then wished I had more African American features but [I] never felt confused or lost."

Lawton has modeled for Baby Phat, FUBU, Adidas & Enyce. Her film/TV credits include Entourage, Soul Plane, Half & Half, The Parker, and Tyler Perry's House of Payne.

 
 

 

 

GINA RAVERA, Actress                                                                                                       D.O.B.: 05/20/1966 (Taurus)

Mother: African-American

Father: Puerto Rican
Interesting fact:
  • She is a classically trained dancer
  • She is the founder of Project Reina, a non-profit organization that raises HIV/AIDS awareness among Black and Latina women

Filmography: Showgirls (1995); Soul Food (1997); The Closer (2005-2008); ER (2006-2008); The Great Debaters (2007).
 
 


 

 
AMY HILL, Actress                                                                                                                  D.O.B.: 05/09/1953 (Taurus)
Mother: Japanese

Father: Finnish-American
On being mixed:

"There was one girl that was very involved in the Japanese-American community and I remember she would take me to parties that were largely Japanese-American and they'd always refer to me as 'half.' - Oh, this is Amy. She's half," she said in an interview with KQED.org. "And I remember growing up, people would ask you what are you, and I'd draw a line in the middle of my body and say this half is Japanese and this half is American, cause I knew that I was mixed. But I never put it together that that was a bad thing... But the first time I felt unwelcome in the Japanese-American community, or other in the Japanese-American community, was in junior high/high school. Cause that was my first foray. Cause I thought, cause my elementary school was all white, so I remember thinking that maybe that would be the place for me to hang. That would be my community. And it turned out not to be my community."

On self acceptance:

"Hapa is something that I started calling myself ...I think I liked using it because it sounded happy. Hapa. It's kind of cute, you know? Half seemed to diminish who you were because you're not whole, you're half, and then you get into all the things about you're really just too... It's very complicated. And I think everybody is a product of both parents and your upbringing and the people that you meet along the way in life. And we're all sort of unique in whatever way. And hapa is just a nice term for that little special unique multi-racial Asian thing. It's fun."

 
 
 

 

 
NANCY KWAN,  Actress                                                                                                
D.O.B.: 05/19/1939 (Taurus)
Mother: Scottish

Father:  Cantonese
Interesting fact:

Kwan paved the way for many Asian-American actors in Hollywood during her career which began when she was 18 and landed the lead role in the The World of Suzie Wong (1960); She was a major sex symbol in the '60s, dubbed the "Chinese Bardot."

 
 
 
 


 

 
GIANCARLO ESPOSITO, Actor                                                                                               
D.O.B.: 04/26/58 (Taurus)
Mother: African-American

Father: Italian
On being mixed:

"In Italy, I was raised in a household where I never realized my mother was black or my father was white.  Once I came to America, things changed," he said in an essay published by Common Quest magazine.

In school, Esposito said he didn't fit in. "The black guys didn't understand me. They didn't understand how I spoke.  I didn't walk with a little dip. I didn't wear my hair in an Afro and I had a name like Giancarlo Giuseppe Allesandro Esposito.  They couldn't relate.  Same with those little guinea guys who I so wanted to relate to because of my boyhood with my dad in Italy.  I had to wind up telling them, listen, I'm more Italian than you are.  Look at my name.  I lived there."

Esposito said that he preferred not to have to chose between his African-American and Italian bloodlines, but he says that living in America the choice was made for him.

 After awhile, he says, "I refuse to live in a way that says I am not good enough, a world that will not accept me because of the color of my skin.'
 

 

 
 VICTORIA ROWELL, Actress/Ballet Dancer                                                                                                
D.O.B.: 05/10/1960 (Taurus)
Mother: Caucasian

Father: African-American
On her mixed background:

Rowell was given up to foster care sixteen days after she was born for reasons that are unclear. Some sources say it's because her mother suffered from schizophrenia while others says she was pressured by her white family. Rowell had a difficult childhood, moving to different homes, though she found comfort in dancing ballet, which eventually led to her modeling and acting career.

Also the mother of a blonde-haired, blue-eyed mixed-race daughter, Rowell says that she is also often mistaken as her daughter's nanny. Sometimes I get really angry when people openly doubt that Maya is my daughter," she told Essence magazine. "When Maya was born, the White nurse flatly refused to give her to me until she had checked my armband real carefully." Rowell said she will make sure to teach her daughter about her mixed heritage. 

Interesting fact:

  • Best  known for two high profile television roles: Drucilla Winters on the daytime drama The Young & The Restless, and her primetime role as  Dr. Amanda Bentley on Diagnosis: Murder
     
  •  She has a son with jazz singer, Wynton Marsalis.
 

 

 
ALANA DAVIS, Actor/Model                                                                                                          
D.O.B.:5/06/74  (Taurus)
Mother: Irish-Scottish

Father:African-American

Interesting fact:

Davis achieved a radio hit with the single "32 Flavors" from her debut album; Her father was a pianist who played alongside jazz greats like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gilespie;  Davis is a fan of not only music, but also cats, particularly Tonkinese  cats, which she breeds
 

 

 
JAMIE-LYNN SIGLER, Actress                                                                                              
D.O.B. 05/15/1981(Taurus)
Mother: Cuban (converted to Judaism)

Father: Jewish-American, Greek, Romanian

Interesting fact:
  • Fluent in Spanish and Greek
  • Struggled with an  eating disorder in the late 90's
  • She's close friends with pop singer Lance Bass
 

 

 
 LAURA IZIBOR, Irish R&B Singer                                                                                            
D.O.B. 05/13/1987(Taurus)
Mother: Irish

Father: Nigerian
Interesting fact:
  • Born and raised in Dublin, Ireland
  • She went on to win a Hope for 2006 Award at the 2006 Meteor Music Awards.
 

 

 

 

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