Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’ |
Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’
Weekend Edition Sunday
National Public Radio
2009-11-08
Liane Hansen, Host
The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that’s expected to shoot up in the 2010 count. As more of the nation’s population identifies itself as being of mixed race, the authors of a new book say Americans’ traditional ideas of racial identity are in for a challenge.
In the book Blended Nation, photographer Mike Tauber and producer Pamela Singh combine portraits of mixed-race Americans with stories of living beyond the sometimes rigid notions of race. The husband-and-wife team tell host Liane Hansen they wanted to highlight the personal experiences of life between categories.
“We really wanted to know what it was like for somebody who checks more than one box to exist in that realm,” Tauber says…
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