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  • 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…

  • Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil

    Skin Color Still Plays Big Role In Ethnically Diverse Brazil All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-09-19 Audie Cornish, Host Melissa Block visits a historic section of Rio de Janeiro that pays homage to Afro-Brazilian history and the many slaves that came ashore there. She talks with Brazilian filmmaker Joel Zito Araujo about what it…

  • 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…

  • Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says

    Babies Of Color Are Now The Majority, Census Says National Public Radio 2016-07-01 Kendra Yoshinaga Today’s generation of schoolchildren looks much different than one just a few decades ago. Nonwhites are expected to become the majority of the nation’s children by 2020, as our colleague Bill Chappell reported last year. This is now the reality…

  • The Agonizing Collision Of Love And Slavery In ‘Thomas Jefferson’

    The Agonizing Collision Of Love And Slavery In ‘Thomas Jefferson’ Book Reviews National Public Radio 2016-04-06 Jean Zimmerman Did Thomas Jefferson dream of his enslaved concubine, Sally Hemings? No one knows. Jefferson himself never wrote a word about his constant companion of almost 40 years. But author Stephen O’Connor gives us a brave and wondrous…

  • Filipino Americans: Blending Cultures, Redefining Race

    Filipino Americans: Blending Cultures, Redefining Race Code Switch: Race and Identity, Remixed National Public Radio 2016-05-24 Renee Montagne, Host There are over 3 million people of Filipino heritage living in the U.S., and many say they relate better to Latino Americans than other Asian American groups. In part, that can be traced to the history…

  • 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…

  • The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People?

    The Brain Likes Categories. Where Should It Put Mixed-Race People? Shots: Health News from NPR National Public Radio 2016-03-15 Katherine Du Humans like to place things in categories and can struggle when things can’t easily be categorized. That also applies to people, a study finds, and the brain’s visual biases may play a role in…

  • 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…