Tag: Arun Rath

  • From Her Dad To Her ‘Jamish’ Roots, A Poet Pieces Her Story Together All Things Considered National Public Radio 2014-12-28 Arun Rath, Host Growing up in 1970s England, Salena Godden stood out. Her mother was Jamaican and her father was an Irish jazz musician who mysteriously disappeared from her life when she was very young.…

  • ‘Everything I Never Told You’ Exposed In Biracial Family’s Loss Code Switch: Frontiers of Race, Culture and Ethnicity National Public Radio 2014-06-28 Arun Rath All Things Considered It’s May, 1977, in small-town Ohio, and the Lee family is sitting down at breakfast. James is Chinese-American and Marilyn is white, and they have three children —…

  • Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation All Things Considered National Public Radio 2013-05-12 Arun Rath, Host [Note from Steven F. Riley: My wife and I live in the White Oak neighborhood of Silver Spring, Maryland, USA.] Larry Bright holds his 3-year-old son’s hand while the boy steps through a leafy playground in…