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Glamour’s June issue (cover girl is Debra Messing, see left) features a very interesting interview with Rashida and Kidada Jones, along with their parents, Peggy Lipton and Quincy Jones. (Thanks Kimberly, for letting us know about this!)
Their story has some uncanny parallels to Danzy Senna’s novel “Caucasia” (minus the whole going undercover and running from […]

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The Cincinnati Enquirer interviews Deborah Price, the highest-ranking Republican woman in Congress, about her experience being a single mom of a transracially adopted child.
“You will find some people … that don’t agree with interracial marriage or interracial families or interracial anything, but I just think that any child that needs love and there’s […]

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Asbury Park Press interviews the little boy who inspired the line of mixed race dolls and the founders of Real Kidz. Keep an eye out, fans! There are some new dolls in the works that will be added to the collection!
“It looks like me when I was little,” Cameron explains, “but now I’m older, […]

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CBS reports on a recent discrimination claim. Aisha O’Gilvie is suing her high school for barring her from attending her own graduation. She thinks that her school’s reasoning is a little fishy, and believes that her problems began once she started to date interracially.
The school, through an archdiocese spokesman, says the student in question has […]

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As we told you in April, former NBA star Charles Barkley just wrote a new book titled Who’s Afraid of a Large Black Man? in which he interviews 13 influential Americans about race and racism. AOL Black Voices has excerpted his chapter on Tiger Woods, and it’s nice to see Tiger actually TALK about […]

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In June, Gabriela Kohen will be taking her one-woman show, “Decoding the Tablecloth” to the JCC in Manhattan. I plan to go with SwirlNYC, so I will definitely report back! :)
An award winner at the New York International Fringe Festival, this autobiographical show looks at the experiences of an immigrant girl growing up Jewish […]

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I just finished reading Adam Mansbach’s Angry Black White Boy tonight, and I highly recommend it to all of you. You can read a synopsis in our earlier post about the book.
Macon is a fascinating character. He’s self-aware to the extreme about his own white privilege, and how he may come across to other people: […]

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Tom Cruise was on Oprah yesterday (5/23). In between gushing about his new “relationship” with Katie Holmes, Oprah managed to ask him his thoughts on being a father to a transracial adoptee. It turns out Cruise is so highly evolved that he didn’t even notice his son was of […]

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The Maine Sunday Telegram reviews The “Tragic Mulatta” Revisited, a book that analyzes how this archetype symbolizes the volatile and shifting interface of race and national identity in the antebellum period:
For her dissertation some years ago, Eve Raimon was reading all the anti-slavery fiction she could find. Plot devices were predictable, although narratives with a […]

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Angry Asian Man has some company! A new site titled Bitter Asian Men just launched, written by two Asian guys who think that life as an Asian guy sucks:
Why are Asian men bitter? A better question would be, why not? Asian men have plenty of reasons to be bitter, which is what this page is […]

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We first told you about Mix It Up in March and Like Minded People last year. The Times-Picayune reports on additional companies that are contributing to the rise of products that cater to interracial couples and mixed consumers. Look no further…now you can get tshirts, greeting cards, gifts, and hair products that speak to your […]

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Just saw this on Angry Asian Man. Oh you make us mixed folks proud, Jessica. Not.
“Remember Jessica Cutler? She’s the infamous “Washingtonienne” who got national attention after chronicling her Capitol Hill sexcapades on a blog. She got fired, but the ordeal landed her a six-figure book deal and a Playboy photo spread. Well, one […]

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Blog Gothamist interviews Karen Quinn about her new novel, The Ivy Chronicles, a look at the cutthroat, insane world of New York City private nursery school admissions. Apparently, parents will do some crazy things to get their children into these schools. One family actually tans their children so that they’ll look biracial, and stand a […]

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Apparently, the “Generation E.A. (Ethnically Ambiguous)” beauty ideal has invaded even the Miss Universe pageant–traditionally an upholder of the blonde-haired, blue-eyed aesthetic. At least two of this year’s contestants are mixed. Miss Denmark, Gitte Hanspal(pictured), is half Indian, while Miss Norway Helen Trasaavik is half Thai.
The Miss Universe pageant will be broadcast live on May […]

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I guess May/December romance is today’s theme on Mixed Media Watch (though I find the Mary Kay thing really, really hard to stomach). Wednesday’s episode of “Home Delivery” featured a couple that was not only interracial, but had an age gap of 15 years:
Antwon and Michelle are very much in love–they’re engaged and have a […]

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The infamous Mary Kay Letourneau is going to marry Villi Fualaau today, reports The Associated Press. Plus, “Entertainment Tonight” and “The Insider” got the exclusive broadcasting rights:
Letourneau, now 43, served 7 1/2 years in prison after she was convicted of raping Vili Fualaau, now 22. She was released last August. The couple first met […]

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Another interracial couple–this time in Tennessee–has found a burning cross on their yard. Chattanooga’s News Channel 9 reports that the wife knows who did it.
She says she knows who did it and the kids have been in her home, eaten at her table, and played with her son. And according to Mrs. Chatman, the police […]

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SFGate reports that Ward and his American Civil Rights Coalition are being sued for not disclosing the sources of the $1.7 million in contributions received to back Proposition 54. Not only is he paying $95,000 to settle, but he also has to say he’s sorry.
California’s campaign watchdog, the Fair Political Practices Commission, said Wednesday […]

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Yay!!! Naima won America’s Next Top Model last night! It was nice to hear her acknowledge her mixed heritage in the episode. After realizing she’d won the competition, she said something along the lines of, “I know that I represent more than just this. I represent a black girl. I represent a Mexican girl. I’m […]

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The Chicago Tribune ran a story about former University of Kentucky basketball player, Rex Chapman. He reminisces about the anti-interracial sentiments he encountered while in college in the 80s. Geez, not much has changed…athletes still get the brunt of the interracial dating hating, huh?
Former University of Kentucky basketball star Rex Chapman says school officials tried […]