NEWS FEED
Public outcry over
whitewashing of biracial character
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The controversy
began less than a year ago, when readers discovered that
Justine Larbalestier’s Liar — a book about a
biracial high school student — had a white girl pictured
on its jacket.
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Most children from broken
multicultural homes are unable to receive proper
education or medical treatment due to poverty, showing
the urgent need for policies to rescue them from neglect.
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January 25,
2010
Multiracial Experience
at Princeton University
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In my first few weeks at Princeton, I
became accustomed to fielding questions: What’s your
background? Where are your parents from? And the
strikingly existential: What are you?
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January 25, 2010
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Filmmaker to discover Afro-German roots |
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“It all started with a public threat on my life.”
Within the first few minutes of Mo Asumang’s documentary
“Roots Germania,” students, faculty and Bloomington
residents became part of a search for the director’s
identity.
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November 9, 2009
Steelers' Ward Helps
half-Korean Youths on Journey Toward Acceptance
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| There was a boy who was bullied into depression and
tried to commit suicide. There was a girl ordered by a
teacher to keep her hair pulled back tight, to
straighten the natural curls she inherited from her
black father. There was another too intimidated by her
taunting classmates to board the bus, choosing instead
the humiliating and lonely walk to school.
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November 8, 2009
Oregon family at
heart of sticky issue: Does intermarriage threaten Native
American culture?
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Aaron Luke is only 7, but his father, Marcus Luke,
is already coaching him on whom to marry when he grows
up: a Native American.
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November 8, 2009
Two mixed-race citizens
spark debate in China
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"Their
emergence into the limelight has forced the country into
an uncomfortable and often shocking debate about what it
means to be Chinese."
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Judge who
refuses to marry interracial couple resigns
"I have one problem with marrying mixed race marriages and
that is the offspring."
November 8, 2009
Biracial filmmaker
overcomes all obstacles to bring stories to the screen
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“Swimming in Vanilla Dreams” is set in a futuristic
world in which being of mixed race is illegal. “It talks
about what hate and fear does within society. Fear of
immigration, fear of ‘the other.’”READ MORE
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November 4, 2009
.Largest housing
discrimination settlement
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An interracial married couple with
bi-racial children will receive a portion of the $2.75
million settlement that Los Angeles landlord
Donald T. Sterling has agreed to pay as a consequence of
his discriminatory housing practices, the largest
monetary payment ever obtained by the Justice
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October 19, 2009
Is life tougher
for biracial kids?
Researchers are finding that multiracial kids
can sometimes be better socially adjusted than single-race
offspring. And with the high-profile success of multiracial
progeny such as Tiger Woods,
Halle Berry,
and President Obama (who at his first press conference as
president described himself as a "mutt"), stereotypes about the
split world of the "tragic
mulatto" have long fallen by the wayside.
October 18, 2009
NY politician breaks "taboo"
by putting mixed-race family on campaign
When Bill de Blasio, a candidate for public office in
New York City this fall, put
his family in his campaign mailings and TV ads, there was
nothing routine about it. De Blasio’s wife of 15 years, Chirlane
McCray, is black, his children are of mixed race and, even in
one of America’s most liberal cities, no one could remember
anything like it
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October 17, 2009
"I'm not a racist. I just
don't believe in mixing the races that way... There is a problem
with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage,"
Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help
put them through it."READ MORE
October 11, 2009
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Are biracial
students perceived
more negatively than
their monoracial
counterparts? |
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Rutgers University
Assistant Professor
Diana T. Sanchez and
Courtney M. Bonam of
Stanford University
conducted two
studies in which
they compared
warmth, competence
and scholarship
worthiness for
biracial, white and
minority college
applicants. The
first study compared
biracial Black/White
applicants
with monoracial
Black (minority) and
White applicants,
while the second
study compared
biracial Asian/White
applicants with
monoracial Asian
(minority) and
Whites.
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October 11, 2009
CNN's Soledad O'Brien
talks about mixed-race, Latino experience
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"Don't let
them tell you you're not black," she tells me. "Don't
let them tell you you're not Hispanic or not Cuban." And
I don't.
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October 11, 2009
Michelle
Obama's biracial ancestry
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The New York Times traced Michelle
Obama’s ancestry back through five
generations to a young slave girl
named Melvinia Shields — identified
by genealogist Megan Smolenyak as
the first lady’s great-great-great
grandmother.
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October 10, 2009
Transplant recipient
dies, leaves a legacy for mixed-race community
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A
28-year-old Fremont man whose battle with leukemia drew
widespread attention to the need for multiracial bone
marrow donors died this week at home, surrounded by
family
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September 20, 2009
Chinese and
Western, the best of both worlds
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More and more
mixed-blood people - half-Chinese, half-Western - are
showing up in Shanghai.
They're known as hun xue, or mixed blood, and many just
say of themselves, "I'm half."
In fashion and entertainment, they are popular as
"fusion" models as they are taller than most Chinese and
have distinctive features.
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September 20, 2009
J.
Edgar Hoover - Biracial? Passing for
White
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If true, this could be one of
the biggest cover-ups of the century. Especially, since
Hoover had a open disdain for Blacks, he also showed a
dislike for Homosexuals and was allegedly involved in a
questionable relationship with a fellow FBI agent named
Clyde Tolson.
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Was J. Edgar Hoover the poster child for self-hatred? |
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Jon & Kate
+ RACE
"So, what do their children
learn from this? Asians
speak funny. The kids learn
that Asian foods smell
funny, too. When Jon takes
some of them to an Asian
grocery store, the kids
declare that the goods
inside “smell yucky.” This
could have been a teachable
moment, with Jon educating
his children about the food
in the store or even
suggesting that the children
replace the word “yucky”
with “different.” Jon,
however, simply laughs."READ MORE
-Nadra Kareem
Special Correspondent for
Racialicious
September 9, 2009
Mixed-race author
becomes President of the University of Cincinnati
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"He
was often attacked by white youths because they knew he
was a 'nig***,' he also fought black youths who thought
he was a "cracker," or white.
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September 3, 2009
Muhammad Ali
discovers Irish roots
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Muhammad Ali made
a sentimental journey earlier this month to discover his
Irish roots, and met distant relatives during
celebrations at the local town hall and a nearby castle.
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What is cool
among Eurasian youth?
Science
of Time, a trend and
market researcher,
conducted one of the
biggest research on what
Eurasian kids think is
cool. From Shanghai to
Stockholm, here are some
of their finds:
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The chopstick
bra
Because of the
production of
disposable
chopsticks, lots
of trees are
being cut. So
Triumph
international
(manufacturer of
women lingerie)
has invented My
Hashi (My
chopsticks bra
in Japanese) as
a response for
the Japanese
women. It has
collapsible
chopsticks as a
promotion tool
to produce less
disposable
chopsticks.
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"It’s funny, I had completed that
section for my husband, myself and
my older daughter without really
thinking about it. White, black,
black… and then I came to my baby,
who is bi-racial. I couldn’t call
her primarily white any more than I
could call her primarily black. If
she were old enough to ask, I would
have written whatever she said."
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"I
do understand why some mixed race people identify as
"black with a white mom. " If you look black, often
it's simply less complicated to identify that way.
It’s easier to just relent to how society will
define you."
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August 25, 2009
New Blasian couple, a
"Union" in science fiction
Scifiwire.com
"The cultural differences with our families, not only
blending families in the middle of a recession but blending
families that come from different cultures and races and
backgrounds, will definitely be explored," Union said in an
exclusive interview last week in Pasadena, Calif. "And, I love
John."
"The cultural differences with our families, not only
blending families in the middle of a recession but blending
families that come from different
August 12, 2009
Victims of Crime:
Mixed Race people highest risk
"Almost
half (46 per cent) of adults of Mixed race had been the victim
of a crime within that timeframe. Black adults and those from
the ‘Chinese or other’ group experienced similar levels of crime
to White people, averaging slightly over 25 percent."
August 12, 2009
There goes
the neighborhood
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One of the eight families
competing in the first season of CBS "There goes the
neighborhood" include the Upshaws, a mixed race family
from Ohio, and their dog named sugar.
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August 4, 2009
I turned from black
to white
Luke
Davis, who is biracial (Nigerian/Irish), talks about the skin
disorder that changed his complexion.
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"Often, when I look in
the mirror, I am shocked by the
unfamiliar white face staring back at
me, and I can't help but mourn the
colour that I once was."
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August 3, 2009
Princeton
Professor tweets about her views on
mixed-race identity
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"Though I respect that ppl have right to
think of themselves as anything they like, I think
"multi-racial" is a weird idea." |
August 3, 2009
Mixed-race kids in
Korea withdrawing from school at an alarming rate
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Nearly 70% of
those of high school age do not attend school and most
work in factories, or as waitstaff in bars and
restaurants.
"I even once wished that
no more black-Koreans would be born at all."
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August 1, 2009
Artist to exhibit
provocative Confederate flag paintings in San Francisco
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“From the beginning, I’ve always wanted to explore the
contradictions and dualities we Americans are forced to
live with daily, so it occurred to me that my family, a
long line "of
mixed-race Blacks on both my mother’s side and father’s
side, embodies and displays that contradiction
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July 28, 2009
Mixed-race girl
talks about the bully who made her suicidal
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Natasha, 14, tells
BBC Radio 5, about how she was
victimised by a bully who has since
become the first schoolboy to be
convicted of racial harassment. |
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"He would call me things like a golliwog, the 'n' word, a
coon," Natasha said. I knew that if I spoke to her (my mother)
she would go into the school, and I didn't
want the situation to get worse."
July 23, 2009
Couples seek Indian egg
donors to have multiracial babies
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"The perception is that multiracial
children are healthier and brighter."
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July 23, 2009
British student
first-ever to be convicted for racially harassing mixed-race
classmate
The boy tormented the mixed-race girl, who had already moved
schools because of racial abuse, with chants of "white is
right", "kick them out" and "fight, fight, fight", he said. He
also told the girl: "Go back to your own country, you don't
belong here".
July 22, 2009
Jennifer Aniston to make film
about the struggles of a biracial teen in Mississippi
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Screen Gems and Jennifer Aniston are
teaming up to make a film about a biracial high school
student who finds himself in the middle of controversy
when he returns to his white mother's hometown in
Mississippi
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July 14, 2009
'Funky Winkerbean' Features Biracial
Relationship
July 14, 2009
Black journalists point to growing
number of biracial families and calls ABC "out of touch"
About Michael Jackson's children:
"when
the children look more white than black, eyebrows -- and
stereotypes -- get raised."
July 11, 2009
Arkansas man
pleads guilty to burning cross and house to intimidate woman and
her biracial children
"They wanted to force Slaughter-Shirah out of the mostly
white town of Donaldson in Hot Spring County because she
associated with 'niggers,'the agreement says."
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July 10, 2009
Canadian man
of mixed-race a victim of racially motivated attack
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Assault video on YouTube, sparks outrage
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They were yelling “ ‘we're gonna lynch you, we're gonna kill you, get out of our effing town.' I'd never seen these guys before in my life,” said Mr. Phillips, who describes himself as half-black and half-white.
July 10, 2009
"HAPA" HOTDOGS
Out with the mustard, in with the kimchi!
Influenced by their mixed heritage, foodies Melanie Campbell
(Chinese/Australian)and Stephen Porto (Korean/Italian) gave the
classic, All-American favorite a "mixed" makeover with
Asian-inspired toppings like Japanese curry, kimchi, seaweed
flakes and Thai-style relish.
July 7, 2009
Mixed-race
people earn less than blacks and whites
"After analyzing more
than 3 million respondents, Fairlie discovered that the average
pay for people of mixed race was $15.75 per hour, $17.39 for
black people and...READ
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July 7, 2009
West Virginia cop pleads guilty to violating civil rights of
mixed-race couple
"They said, 'You niggers think
you can do anything down here. This is our movie. This ain't no
rap movie."
July 6, 2009
British family makes headlines because of their mixed-race
"rainbow" children
A mixed race couple have nicknamed their kids
the Rainbow Children after a genetic quirk left them with a
remarkable spectrum of skin colours.
"I remember giving birth to each one of them at
the hospital and all the doctors were looking at me thinking I
had all these children to different men."
July 01, 2009
Biracial or fair-skinned children stand better chance of being
adopted by Black women.
July 01, 2009
California bill hopes to include multiracial
category on education forms
June
26, 2009
Nixon:
Abortion for "Black and White" offspring
"There are times when an abortion is necessary. I know
that. When you have a black and a white...Or a rape.”
Adoption
easier for biracial couples in Canada
June
26, 2009
Jacko, Farrah and Ed: You'll
be missed
June 19th, 2009
Irish/Nigerian R&B songstress debuts U.S. album and gets rave
revues
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