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  • Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die?

    Will Racism End When Old Bigots Die? Code Switch: Race And Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2017-01-14 Leah Donnella Shelly Fields is a 46-year-old white woman living in Richton Park, a racially diverse Chicago suburb. She says she’s raised her four daughters, who are biracial, to see people of all races as equal, just as…

  • Meet Shereen Marisol Meraji, A Latina Journalist Tackling Race & Idendity Through Podcasting

    Meet Shereen Marisol Meraji, A Latina Journalist Tackling Race & Idendity Through Podcasting Latina 2016-11-23 Raquel Reichard, Politics & Culture Editor Hugo Rojo With Donald Trump, a candidate who ran on racism, xenophobia, sexism, Islamophobia and a disdain for journalists, heading to the White House, reports by and about the communities most impacted by the…

  • There’s something about feeling like an outsider in the place where you grew up that stings. Like family members who no longer recognize you.

    I was already dreading the thought of doing it again, having to face those saccharine smiles trying to understand, Why are you here? Again, I’m a black woman with a Jewish mother, and I live in the United States of America. When I say that I’m used to being in places where I don’t look…

  • Black, Jewish And Avoiding The Synagogue On Yom Kippur

    Last time I worshipped in a synagogue was Sept. 5, 2014. And I won’t be going today. That might surprise my friends, who put up with my bragging ad nauseam about how Jewish I am.

  • All Mixed Up: What Do We Call People Of Multiple Backgrounds?

    It’s the summer of 1998 and I’m at the mall with my mom and my sister Anna, who has just turned 5. I’m 7. Anna and I are cranky from being too hot, then too cold, then too bored. We keep touching things we are not supposed to touch, and by the time Mom drags…

  • Who Gets To Be ‘Hapa’?

    Who Gets To Be ‘Hapa’? Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-08-08 Akemi Johnson Sunset in Waikiki: Tourists sipping mai tais crowded the beachside hotel bar. When the server spotted my friend and me, he seemed to relax. “Ah,” he said, smiling. “Two hapa girls.” He asked if we were from Hawaii.…

  • A Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter

    A Letter From Young Asian-Americans To Their Families About Black Lives Matter Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-07-27 Shereen Marisol Meraji, Reporter Kat Chow, Digital Journalist In the Facebook Live video streamed earlier this month by Diamond Reynolds after her fiance, Philando Castile, was fatally shot by a police officer during…

  • Obama Gets All In His Blackness At Howard

    Obama Gets All In His Blackness At Howard Code Switch National Public Radio 2016-05-10 Leah Donnella “Be confident in your heritage. Be confident in your blackness,” President Barack Obama told graduates and their families at Howard University’s 2016 Commencement Ceremony. It was one of many moments in a speech that honored the achievements of black…

  • What Would It Mean To Have A ‘Hapa’ Bachelorette?

    What Would It Mean To Have A ‘Hapa’ Bachelorette? Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-13 Akemi Johnson On a recent episode of The Bachelor, the ABC dating reality show that ends its 20th season Monday night, contestant Caila Quinn brings Ben Higgins home to meet her interracial family. “Have…

  • An Emerging Entry In America’s Multiracial Vocabulary: ‘Blaxican’

    An Emerging Entry In America’s Multiracial Vocabulary: ‘Blaxican’ Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2016-03-08 Adrian Florido When Melissa Adams and her sister were growing up in Lynwood, near Compton, Calif., their black father and Mexican mother taught them to be proud of all aspects of their identity: They were…