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  • Do 2 Halves Really Make a Whole? Center for Asian American Media 1993 30 minutes VHS Martha Chono-Helsley, Producer/Director This video features the diverse viewpoints of people with multiracial Asian heritages. African and Japanese American poet and playwright Velina Hasu Houston lives an “amalgamated existence” and encourages others to take pride in all that they…

  • CNN’s Soledad O’Brien keeps own story under wraps while exploring colorism in “Who is Black in America? Tampa Bay Times The Feed 2012-12-07 Eric Deggans, TV/Media Critic More than any other, one moment crystallizes the confusing, sometimes comically absurd contortions built up around racial identity unveiled in CNN’s latest documentary Who Is Black in America?…

  • The best evidence suggests there has yet to be a sea change in the proportion of Americans selecting a multiracial identity. Furthermore, practices of racial self-classification are much less likely to have any significant implications for the direction of social policies than practices of social classification—how people are perceived and categorized racially and ethnically by…

  • QUESTION: How might social policies change as more Americans identify themselves as “multiracial”?

  • A Beautiful Blend Center for Asian American Media 2004 27 minutes DVD David Hosley, Producer KVIE-TV In the decades following the Supreme Court’s 1967 decision to end laws making interracial marriage illegal, the United States has witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of mixed-race couples and of the multi-ethnic children born to them. As…

  • Hapa: One Step at a Time Center for Asian American Media 2001 26 minutes DVD Midori Sperandeo, Producer KVIE-TV According to 2000 Census statistics, nearly 7 million Americans identify themselves as multi-racial, or ‘hapa.’ This engaging first-person documentary is about marathon runner and TV producer Midori Sperandeo’s struggles to come to terms with her hapa…

  • Mixed-race Brits rising fast as prejudice wanes The Sunday Times 2012-12-09 Dipesh Gadher, Deputy News Editor MIXED-RACE Britons, epitomised by Jessica Ennis, the Olympic heptathlon champion, are among the nation’s fastest-growing ethnic-minority groups, according to official figures. New data from the 2011 census to be published on Tuesday is expected to show that at least…

  • Under the Skin Finch Publishing August 2012 210 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781921462801 Marion van Dyk This beautifully written and evocative memoir is a fascinating insight into the lives of her family, living under apartheid, who struggled to create a sense of identity and personal worth. It’s a book of historical relevance in its revelations about…

  • Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry: Identity and struggle The Guardian 2011-08-15 Sarah Crown In our inaugural podcast from the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Sebastian Barry and Jackie Kay talk to us about the themes that power their work In our first podcast from the 2011 Edinburgh International Book Festival, we explore questions of identity and…

  • Who Is Black In America? Soledad O’Brien, CNN Find Out In ‘BIA 5’ NewsOne: For Black America 2012-12-07 Navarrow Wright This Sunday at 8 p.m., CNN airs its fifth installment of the “Black In America” series, which is hosted by Soledad O’Brien. In this episode, O’Brien asks the question, “Who is Black in America?” as…