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  • The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Explains What it Is to Be Mixed and Happy

    The Girl Who Fell from the Sky Explains What it Is to Be Mixed and Happy The Huffington Post 2010-05-04 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg Professors Ravinder Barn and Vicki Harman from the Centre for Criminology and Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London are carrying out a…

  • What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means

    What the ‘Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful’ Meme Really Means The Huffington Post 2013-08-22 Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg The New York Times’ Motherlode blog recently posted a thought-provoking article called, “Mixed Kids Are Always So Beautiful.” The author’s experiences as a parent to a racially-ambiguous mixed…

  • We are going to need new terms that reflect numerical reality and social-political reality…

    We are going to need new terms that reflect numerical reality and social-political reality. Part of that implies thinking about what race and ethnicity mean in general and what specific racial and ethnic, and multiracial and multiethnic, identities mean in particular. At the same time, we’ve got to remember that every racial or ethnic community…

  • For some, Cheerios commercial crossed a line by depicting mixed-race family as normal

    For some, Cheerios commercial crossed a line by depicting mixed-race family as normal The Daily Circuit MPR News Minnesota Public Radio 2013-06-11 You might not think a cereal commercial would serve as a vehicle for a heartfelt conversation about race, but that seems to be what’s happening — both around the country and on The…

  • The Gil Gross Program with Marcia Dawkins

    The Gil Gross Program with Marcia Dawkins The Gil Gross Program Talk 910, KKSF AM San Francisco, California Monday, 2013-05-13 Gil Gross, Host Gil speaks with Marcia Dawkins, author of “Clearly Invisible; Racial passing and the Color of Cultural Identity“, about the growth of our mulit-racial nation. Download the audio here.

  • Checking More Than One Box: A Growing Multiracial Nation

    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…

  • ‘Mixed Kids Are the Cutest’ Isn’t Cute?

    ‘Mixed Kids Are the Cutest’ Isn’t Cute? The Root 2013-04-08 Jenée Desmond-Harris, Staff Writer “I’m a Caucasian woman with a biracial child (her father is black). I live in a predominantly white community. Why is it that whenever people discover that I have a ‘mixed’ child, they always say things like, ‘Oh, he/she must be…

  • Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity

    Everybody passes. Not just racial minorities. As Marcia Dawkins explains, passing has been occurring for millennia, since intercultural and interracial contact began. And with this profound new study, she explores its old limits and new possibilities: from women passing as men and able-bodied persons passing as disabled to black classics professors passing as Jewish and…

  • Clearly Invisible, by Marcia Alesan Dawkins

    Clearly Invisible, by Marcia Alesan Dawkins The Christian Century: Thinking Critically. Living Faithfully. 2013-01-23 Rachel Stone The one time I visited my maternal grandfather’s house, we had planned to stay four days. I was ten and had seen my grandfather just once before in my life. I don’t recall if he ever spoke to me,…

  • Dr. Marcia Dawkins Discusses Her Book, Clearly Invisible

    Dr. Marcia Dawkins Discusses Her Book, Clearly Invisible Mixed Race Radio 2012-09-21, 17:00Z (12:00 EST, 09:00 PST) Tiffany Rae Reid, Host Marcia Dawkins, Clinical Assistant Professor of Communications University of Southern California, Annenberg Marcia is an award-winning writer, speaker, educator and visiting scholar at Brown University. She is the author of Clearly Invisible: Racial Passing…