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Judge Me Not By the Texture of My Hair But By the Content of My Character

Damona Hoffman | Posted 06.10.2013 | Black Voices
Read More: Mixed Race, Black Women, Ethnicity, Black Hair, Bi-Racial, Relaxer, Natural Hair, Race, Hairstyles, Multi-Racial, Black Women Beauty, Light-Skinned, Black Women Hair, Kinky Hair, Racism, Afro, Chemical Relaxers, Multiculturalism, Cultural Differences, Bv-Fashion-Beauty, Black Voices News
Damona Hoffman

When I was born with a caramel hue and a head full of dark, wavy hair, my mother proclaimed, "My prayers were answered. You got the long hair like Betty.

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Obama Would Never Get This Tattoo

Posted 02.04.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Mixed Race, Reddit, Oreo Tattoo, Oreo Bar Code Tattoo, Video, Bar Code Tattoos, Tattoos, Comedy News

Of all the tattoos that this half black, half white teenager could have chosen, an Oreo bar code definitely gets points for creativity. (And for you d...

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WATCH: W. Kamau Bell Talks Raising A Mixed-Race Baby

Posted 12.07.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Mixed Race, Michael Jackson, Video, W. Kamau Bell, Interracial Marriage, Totally Biased With W. Kamau Bell, W. Kamau Bell Conan O'brien, Conan O'Brien, Comedy News

W. Kamau Bell, host of "Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell" on FX, stopped by "Conan" on Thursday, and explained the best part of having a mixed-race b...

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American Voters Are Getting All Mixed up

Leighton Woodhouse | Posted 11.20.2012 | Politics
Read More: Mixed Race, Latino Voters, President Obama, Multiracial, Multiracial Americans, Biracial, Interracial Marriage, Voting, Politics News
Leighton Woodhouse

Where does a half-Mexican, half-black woman from Texas come down on immigration reform? What does a quarter Chinese, quarter Filipino, half-Jewish male from Florida think about affirmative action?

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The Future Is Now: What PR Pros and Marketers Need to Know About the "Mixed Mindset"

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 12.17.2012 | Media
Read More: Mixed Race, Advertising, Public Relations, Marketing, San Francisco, Multiracial, Prsa, Media, Niche Marketing, The Future Is Now, Social Media Marketing, Race, Video, Media News
Marcia Dawkins

Welcome to the second decade of the 21st century and to the era of the "Mixed Mindset," which is highly mediated, intensely personal, and increasingly political.

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Is Obama Now Black (Enough) Because He's White?

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 10.02.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: ancestry.com, Mixed Race, Slavery, Multiracial, Genealogy, Race, John Punch, Barack Obama Racial Identity, Barack Obama, Barack Obama Race, Video, Black Voices News
Marcia Dawkins

President Obama embodies and embraces tough questions about race like few others. His ever-evolving racial identity questions the construction of the color line.

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Barack Obama and the Politics of Passing

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 08.26.2012 | Politics
Read More: Mixed Race, Multiracial, Racial Passing, 2012 Presidential Election, Gop 2012 Presidential Candidates, Clearly Invisible, President Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News
Marcia Dawkins

Is Obama passing as black this summer? If so, will he start passing as white come the fall? It's difficult to say, partly because we so desire the president's racial legacy to be one of racial transcendence.

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New Laureate Is More Than the Sum of Her Parts

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 08.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Mixed Race, Miscegenation, Love and Relationships, Interracial Relationships, Multiracial, Race, Interracial Marriage, Poet Laureate, Love, Poetry, Natasha Trethewey, Home News
Marcia Dawkins

As the product of a union that was still a crime in Mississippi when her parents married, and of a nation still bearing the scars of its broken union, Natasha Tretheway is the voice of a history that has been largely unwritten.

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PHOTOS: How To Plan A Gorgeous Cross-Cultural Wedding Ceremony

Christelyn Karazin | Posted 08.01.2012 | Weddings
Read More: Wedding Planning, Interracial Wedding, Mixed Race Wedding, Mixed Race, Cross Cultural Wedding Planning, Cross Cultural Wedding, Mixed Race Marriage, Interracial Marriage, Planning 101, Interracial, After the Wedding, Slideexpand, Weddings News
Christelyn Karazin

When it comes to the point where marriage -- and particularly the wedding ceremony -- is seriously discussed, that fusion can quickly become a culture clash as parents and other family members protest and lobby for their particular traditions to be honored during the festivities.

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DNA Study Solves Mystery Of Mysterious Mixed-Race People

AP | TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 05.25.2012 | Science
Read More: Mixed Race, Dna, History, Video, Melungeon, Race Relations, Melungeon Ancestry, Heritage, Science, Science News, Melungeon Origins, Interracial, Science News

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group of dark-skinned Appalachian residents once...

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Who Passes Into The Hunger Games' Future?

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 07.10.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Mixed Race, Suzanne Collins, Racial-Passing, Racism, Casting, Race, The Hunger Games, Jesse Williams, Entertainment News
Marcia Dawkins

Some fans have launched a campaign to see that actor Jesse Williams gets cast as Finnick. This happens all the time in Hollywood. So what's the big deal? Well, to begin with the character's color, or lack of it, depending on how you see him, is striking.

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A Troubled Experiment's Forgotten Lesson in Racial Integration

Carina Ray | Posted 06.01.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Mixed Race, Intermarriage, Racial Prejudice, Synanon, Multiracial, Racism, Integration, Racial Identity, Race, Interracial Marriage, Segregation, Black Voices News
Carina Ray

The year 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of my Puerto Rican mother and Irish-Italian father's unusual wedding. They met and married in an experimental community called Synanon, where I was born.

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TIME to Think in Full Color About Race & Ethnicity

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 04.28.2012 | Latino Voices
Read More: Passing, Mixed Race, Latino Vote, Time Magazine, Latino Voters, Mixed Ethnicity, Latino Politics, Latino Voices News
Marcia Dawkins

Although the press often talks about Latinos as if they are only a race, we must understand that in the US they constitute an ethnicity that also identifies in racial terms.

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Black, White, Brown & Now

Lisa Ellis | Posted 04.22.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Mixed Race, 14th Amendment, Interracial Marriage, Civil Rights, Mixed-Race Marriage, Bv-Life, Black Voices News
Lisa Ellis

Many times throughout my life I began to write about the subject of inter-racial marriage. My birth being the result of an American interracial marriage, I found that the perspective was rarely spoken about from the point of view of the child of these unions.

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Marvel's Mixed Race "Ultimate Spider-Man"

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 10.03.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Latinos, Mixed Race, Brian Michael Bendis, Peter Parker, Superheroes, Ethnicity, Multiracial, Hispanics, Race, Mixed Ethnicity, Marvel Comics, Culture, Entertainment, African American, Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Man, Black, African Americans, Entertainment News
Marcia Dawkins

Today we meet Miles Morales, a younger multiracial and multiethnic Spider-Man. Even though Morales may remind us of the Spider-Man we're used to in the more traditional Marvel universe, there are definite differences.

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Fosberg's Incognito No More

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 06.01.2011 | Arts
Read More: Theater, Multiracial, Racism, Race, Fosberg, Incognito, Books, Mixed Race, Arts News
Marcia Dawkins

Incognito manages to avoid the trite tropes of the old racial passing narrative where the shock of black ancestry is revealed, seems repulsive and, as a result, goes unreconciled.

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Poly Styrene Returns With New Album, Generation Indigo

Holly Cara Price | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Mixed Race, Misogyny, Poly Styrene, Oh Bondage Up Yours, Youth, Thrash Punk, Kathleen Hanna, Punk Rock, Michael Rendall, Sid Vicious, Brother Culture, Viv Albertine, Bipolar, Marian Elliott-Said, Celeste Bell Dos-Santos, Sex Pistols, Black Christmas, Feminism, Generation Indigo, Breast Cancer, 1970?S, Martin Glover, Kim Gordon, Virtual Boyfriend, John Lydon, Future Noise Music, X Ray Spex, Ghoulish, Aor, Entertainment News
Holly Cara Price

"Some people think little girls should be seen and not heard. But I think....OH BONDAGE UP YOURS!" ~ X-Ray Spex, 1977 Photo Credit: Fabrizio Rainone...

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The Race Classification Gap

Daniel Arrigg Koh | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Mixed Race, Politics, Identity, Race, Multiculturalism, Race-Classification-of-Human-Beings, College News
Daniel Arrigg Koh

A significant portion of colleges did not allow me to represent myself accurately on the application. This issue symbolizes a significant problem with race identification in America and deserves to be addressed with all possible expediency.

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Halle Berry and Nahla: Not So Mixed, Not So Happy

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Mixed Race, Gabriel Aubry, Halle Berry Custody, Halle Berry, Family Values, Halle Berry Gabriel Aubry Split, Multiracial Americans, Halle Berry Nahla, Entertainment News, Los Angeles, Race-Relations, Interracial-Relationships, Entertainment News
Marcia Dawkins

It is easy to see how making racial victims or racial healers out of multiracial people really only serves to let everyone else off the hook. We as a society need to realize that racial reconciliation is everybody's job.

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Love is Blind

Rebecca Walker | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mixed Race, Pregnancy, Bi-Racial, Love, Blindness, Healthy Living News
Rebecca Walker

What if blindness bridged the gap between different races, different economic and educational backgrounds and an age difference sometimes called May-December?

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Multiracial Advocates Change Race-Based Mississippi School Policy

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Mixed Race, Multiracial, Discrimination, Education, Race, Interracial Couple Discrimination, Advocacy, Impact News
Marcia Dawkins

Last week, Nettleton Middle School was forced to drop its 30-year policy of race-based selections for school government and homecoming positions.

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Black, White and Other... Worldwide

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: National Identity, Mixed Race, Multiracial, Racial Identity, Race, Ethnicity, Interracial Relationships, London-United Kingdom, World News
Marcia Dawkins

Even though the 21st century is seeing an exponential increase in reports of multiracial ancestry worldwide, exactly what makes a person multiracial remains a puzzling concept.

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"Loving," Hating and Interracial Relationships

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mixed Race, Interracial Dating, Mildred Loving Interracial Marriage, Multiracial, Interracial Marriage, Louisiana Interracial Marriage, Healthy Living News
Marcia Dawkins

Though this Saturday marks the 43rd anniversary of Loving v. Virginia, discrimination against interracial couples persists.

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2010 Census: Stressed Out of the Box

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mixed Race, 2010 Census, Politics, Robert Groves, Mental Health, Health Care, Ethnicity, Politics News
Marcia Dawkins

The number of boxes we check on the Census depends on the ways in which we think about race and ethnicity as well as the material resources and privileges attached to those ways of thinking.

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Passing as Mixed Race

Marcia Dawkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Mixed Race, Alexandre Dumas, Race, Gerard Depardieu, Movies, Blackface-Minstrelsy, Entertainment, Media, Media News
Marcia Dawkins

Should the media industry take responsibility for its formations of mixed race subjects, forging of interracial relations, and imagining "ambiguous" identification in today's increasingly diversifying world?

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