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Jun 15, 2015 · When asked why they don’t identify as multiracial, about half (47%) say it is because they look like one race. An identical share say they were raised as one race, while about four-in-ten (39% ...
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In 2005, Heidi Durrow was struggling to find a publisher for her novel about a girl who, like her, had a Danish mom and an African-American dad. At the time, no one seemed to think there was much of an audience for the biracial coming-of-age tale. Three years later, when Barack Obama was campaigning for president and the word biracial seemed to be ...
Because she craved an opportunity to connect with other multiracial Americans, Durrow created one: the Mixed Remixed Festival. In 2014, the comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, both of whom have a black father and a white mother, were named the festival's storytellers of the year. Like Durrow's book, their Emmy-winning show, Key & Peele, ...
The cognitive benefits of being biracial may stem from navigating multiple identities, but some researchers argue that multiracial people enjoy innate benefits as well—most notably, and perhaps controversially, the tendency to be perceived as better looking on average than their monoracial peers. In a 2005 study, Japanese and white Australians foun...
Some researchers have extrapolated even further, suggesting that, along with possible good looks and good health, multiracial people might be genetically giftedin other ways. Cardiff University psychologist Michael B. Lewis, who led the 2009 U.K. study on attractiveness, argues that the genetic diversity that comes with being mixed race may in fact...
As much as O'Keefe wishes that milestones such as Obama's presidency signaled the dawn of a post-racial America, he encounters daily reminders that racism endures. One boy he dated in high school didn't want to bring O'Keefe home to meet his parents. "Oh, they don't know you're gay?" O'Keefe asked. "No, they do," the boy responded. "They'd just fre...
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Feb 13, 2024 · Some mixed-race people may only “become” mixed race — that is, start telling census-takers and other surveys they are mixed race and not part of the ethnic majority — because they ...
Jan 18, 2021 · This is part one of Vox First Person’s exploration of multiracial identity in America. Read part two here and part three here. In 1993, the cover of Time bore a digitally rendered face, a ...
- Vox First Person
Feb 11, 2021 · The good news is that that which has been imagined can be reimagined. The key is to recreate social constructs of race and identity in a way that offers the greatest opportunity possible for ...
Jun 11, 2015 · Chapter 4: The Multiracial Experience. The multiracial experience in America is, in many ways, shaped by the composition of one’s racial background, although there are some shared experiences across multiracial groups. Overall, a majority of multiracial adults say they are proud of their mixed racial background, and more say that being ...
Jun 11, 2015 · Overall, only 5% of all mixed-race adults who have at least some college education say they have described their racial background differently than they usually would to get into college or qualify for a scholarship, including 13% of multiracial adults with an Asian background, 6% of black multiracial adults and 5% of mixed-race whites.
