Category: Family/Parenting

  • What a father will do to fight the mental illness that has destroyed his son.

  • Historically, mixed couples and people of mixed descent have been seen as a problem, in popular culture as well as in academic literature. ‘Ethnically’ and ‘racially’ mixed relationships were described as dominated by power imbalances and as devoid of love. This perspective was brought to bear upon relationships and marriages in colonial times and in…

  • Mixed race and proud: LA’s multi-heritage kids navigate their identity 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio Pasadena, California 2017-01-15 Deepa Fernandes Soleil Simone Haight loves saying all three of her names, running them together with sheer glee in her voice. She also proudly declares that she is five years old, that she has curly hair…

  • A Family That Pushed Racial Boundaries Through Generations The New York Times 2017-01-27 Caitlin Dickerson, National Reporter From left: Blake, Jared, Bryan and Deborah Treadwell, photographed in Eastham, Mass. Credit Erik Jacobs for The New York Times When Lizzie Connor kissed her husband goodbye and hopped on a train at Grand Central Depot, The New…

  • Mixed: Documentary to Explore Interracial Families American University Washington, D.C. 2016-12-15 Gregg Sangillo, Online Writer School of Communication professors Leena Jayaswal (l) and Caty Borum Chattoo (r) are making a film about interracial families in the United States. It took a while for documentary filmmakers Leena Jayaswal and Caty Borum Chattoo to realize that they…

  • Partnered fathers bringing up their mixed-/multi-race children: an exploratory comparison of racial projects in Britain and New Zealand Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Published online: 2015-09-23 DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2015.1091320 Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology; Social Sciences Director of Research and Enterprise; Co-director, ESRC National Centre for Research Methods University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom…

  • Children’s and Adults’ Predictions of Black, White, and Multiracial Friendship Patterns Journal of Cognition and Development Published online: 2016-11-22 20 pages DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2016.1262374 Steven O. Roberts, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Psychology University of Michigan Amber D. Williams, National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow University of Texas, Austin Susan A. Gelman, Heinz Werner Distinguished University Professor of…

  • New Book Confronts Colorism in 21st Century America NBC News 2016-12-21 Lesley-Ann Brown “The Masque of Blackness” (1605) is an early Jacobean era “masque” — a popular form of 16th & 17th century amateur dramatic theatre — and is quite possibly the first instance in English literature where the topic of skin color is not…

  • When my friend posted an adorable picture of her son with a black Santa in New York City, I was drawn to the idea of visiting a Santa who reflected my family’s skin tones. I’m black, and my 3-year-old son’s father is white. I am raising him as a single mom with the help of…

  • BETWEEN us, my husband and I have got Spanish, Filipino, Chinese, Slovakian, English, Scottish and Irish heritage. In appearance, he’s Asian and I’m caucasian. This is 2016 and so you wouldn’t even think that was even worth mentioning. But the fact is, reasonably often this affects the way other people treat us.