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  • Mixed Messenger

    Mixed Messenger The New York Times 2008-03-23 Peggy Orenstein A few weeks ago, while stuck at the Chicago airport with my 4-year-old daughter, I struck up a conversation with a woman sitting in the gate area. After a time, she looked at my girl — who resembles my Japanese-American husband — commented on her height…

  • Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests

    Obama Has Ties to Slavery Not by His Father but His Mother, Research Suggests The New York Times 2012-07-30 Sheryl Gay Stolberg, Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON — President Obama’s biography — son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas — has long suggested that unlike most African-Americans, his roots did not…

  • Lives: A Final Message From My Mother

    Lives: A Final Message From My Mother The New York Times 2012-07-20 Josiah Howard The first note I ever wrote for my mother wasn’t very special, but she seemed to think it was. It said: “Hi Mom! Have a nice day! Love Skip!” (her nickname for me). My message was scribbled on a scrap of…

  • A Mulatto Area Gets Own School

    A Mulatto Area Gets Own School The New York Times 1962-09-16 page 73 Hedrick Smith, Special to the New York Times Desegregation Moves Roi Louisiana Caste System BURAS, La., Sept. 13—Freda’s Hi-Lo Bar sits just off State Highway 23 as the road chases the Mississippi River on its last 100 miles from the suburbs of…

  • Olympic Swimmer Neal Built Her Dream in Brooklyn

    Olympic Swimmer Neal Built Her Dream in Brooklyn The New York Times 2012-07-15 William C. Rhoden, Sports Columnist Lia Neal (Al Bello/Getty Images) Rome and Siu Neal with their grandson Rome Jin, their son Rome Kyn and his wife Ziggy (Victor J. Blue for The New York Times) Rome Neal walked up to the microphone…

  • Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’

    Two Classes, Divided by ‘I Do’ The New York Times 2012-07-15 Jason Deparle          Also see the video, “Single and Unequal” by Shayla Harris here. ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Jessica Schairer has so much in common with her boss, Chris Faulkner, that a visitor to the day care center they run might get them confused.…

  • Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’

    Fostering Mixed-Race Children in Ukraine: ‘Family Portrait in Black and White’ The New York Times 2012-07-13 Neil Genzlinger, Television Critic Olga Nenya and her foster and adopted children in 2008, in front of their house in Ukraine, as seen in the documentary directed by Julia Ivanova. First Pond Entertainment “Family Portrait in Black and White,”…

  • Mixed Blessing

    Mixed Blessing The New York Times 2008-06-18 Francis Wilkinson, Executive Editor The Week Being from an interracial marriage has shaped Obama’s political stance. Far from the storied hollows of Appalachia, and well before the Rev. Jeremiah Wright lit up the cable news channels or the “elitist” label was fixed to Barack Obama’s lapel right where…

  • Playing the Interracial Card

    Playing the Interracial Card The New York Times 2012-07-12 Kevin Noble Maillard, Associate Professor of Law Syracuse University “The Miscegenation Ball” Source: Smithsonian Museum of American History (1864) Color print of a dance occuring at the Lincoln Central Campaign Club in New York Sept. 22, 1864. A portrait of Lincoln hangs on the wall. Black…

  • For Daughters of the American Revolution, a New Chapter

    For Daughters of the American Revolution, a New Chapter The New York Times 2012-07-03 Sarah Maslin Nir Olivia Cousins can trace her family in the United States to a soldier who joined the rebelling colonists when he was just 17. But when a friend suggested she join the Daughters of the American Revolution, an organization…