They Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

It is impossible to do more by way of an introduction to a study of race mixture, but it is clear from the foregoing generalizations that concepts of racial purity are largely invalid and that the psychic homogeneity of the human species is much greater than is commonly supposed. It is also evident that differences in language and culture are by no means coincident with differences in physical traits. A rational approach to the question is needed-one which dispenses with what can only be the dead-weight of national ideologies and which acknowledges that an excessive degree af miscegenation must have taken place over thousands of years to account for the present day distribution of physical traits and the variability about a norm which obtains in even the most race-conscious of societies. Given the psychological abhorrence of race mixture which persists as a corollary of untenable theories of racial purity, we must endeavour to assess in quantitative and qualitative terms the indisputable fact of race mixture as it exists in the world to-day.

A. Dickinson, “Race mixture: a social or a biological problem?” The Eugenics Review, Volume 41, Number 2 (July 1949): 81.

They Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid

They Called Me ‘Coffee with Milk’ as a Kid

Zócalo Public Square
2015-11-19

Maya Soetoro-Ng (Photo by Kenna Reed)

Peace Educator Maya Soetoro-Ng Wants America to Make Room for Complexity

Maya Soetoro-Ng is the director of community outreach and global learning for the Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. For many years, she taught high school classes in social studies and English and undergraduate and graduate courses in multicultural education, social studies methods, and peace education. She is also the half-sister of President Barack Obama. Before participating in a discussion on what Hawaii can teach America about race, she talked about sharing the Nuyorican poets with her students, her pet peeve, and the hardest part of peace to practice…

Read the interview here.

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