38 people describe some of their experiences of growing up mixed and how they identify themselves.
Author: 1mf
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Flamenco Kathaa
Two dancers from Mumbai have discovered deeper connections and, with artistic imagination and their creative skills have forged together a new dance form they call Flamenco Kathaa.
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You know you are mixed when….
We are sure you can relate to some of these. Do you have some others to add? Send them to reachout@1mixedfamily.com
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“Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families”
Their mother was Eritrean and their father African American, but the two sisters, Lana and Asha, had vastly different experiences growing up mixed in Brooklyn in the 1980's.
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That Hair
Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three and feels like an outsider from the jump.
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Raising Biracial Children
Most communities, schools and social support organisations lack a definitive or clear understanding of the unique and often challenging experiences, pressures and needs of the mixed race youth of the country.
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Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World
Chang is committed to social justice, and when she read what had been written about mixed-race children and multiracial families, she noticed the books didn’t really deal with racism.
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Families Today Series “Multiracial Families”
Examines interracial families, covering what they are, interracial adoption, and mixed-race people.
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Half & Half
New Yorker (now) Claudine C. O’Hearn was born in Hong Kong of mixed parentage, a Chinese mother, and an Irish American father, relays her own story to open the book and poses some thought provoking questions and observations to frame things.
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Is your style appropriate…d?
According to Maisha Z. Johnson in her article “7 Reasons Why White People Should Not Wear Black Hairstyles” white folks should not wear traditionally Black hairstyles, and she, in her own words, is riled up, and not only at Kylie Jenner.