CVK
(Thanks for the tip, dmwiese!) Apparently Quaker’s Oatmeal has a new TV commercial that features a mixed couple: an Asian man and his white wife. Has anyone seen this yet? If so, let us know what you think about it!

JC

OH no! A study to show that there is a “scientific” basis for why people think Eurasians are more beautiful? Just what we need. And what does this prove? Not that these people really ARE more beautiful — just that so many people have been socialized to think they are more beautiful. Beauty is in […]

CVK
Hey it’s a story from my hometown! Prominent Hong Kong columnist Chip Tsao has found himself in a bit of controversy after he wrote a tongue-in-cheek column about how interracial dating patterns have changed since 1997, when Hong Kong was returned to China. He wrote that local women no longer consider white men to […]

CVK

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader interviews Assiniboine playwright William Yellow Robe, whose play, “Grandchildren of the Buffalo Soldiers,” tells that story of the Robe family, descendants of the union between a Native American grandmother and an African American grandfather, who served in the Union Army as a “buffalo soldier.”
“We refer to ‘breeds’ as half Native […]

JC & CVK
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free. Here’s a rundown of episode 7:
FEEDBACK: Are the “Everyone Loves A Mixed Girl” T-shirts from Like Minded People empowering or objectifying? Jen […]

JC
Another mixed rapper: Sean Daley, aka Slug, is one half of the Minneapolis duo, Atmosphere. He talks with the Philadelphia Inquirer about how he hopes to be a positive influence to youth through his lyrics.
Here’s who Daley is: a multiracial hip-hop artist who over the course of four albums - starting with 1997’s At Overcast! […]

CVK
There’s a long profile of Zadie Smith in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. She’s currently promoting her latest novel, On Beauty:
…she is skittish about the trappings of her increasing celebrity, whether it is posing for photos or being recognized in public or dealing with the aftershocks set off by some of her words lifted out of context. […]

JC & CVK
The other question we answer in this month’s New Demographic newsletter comes from a young man in an interracial relationship, who fears that slowly but surely, he’s losing his sense of identity and may be on the road to “selling out.” Read our answer here:
Q: I am African, my girlfriend is white. We […]

CVK & JC
Our October New Demographic newsletter features a double-dose of advice. First up, we answer a question that we get a lot: who “counts” as being mixed and who doesn’t? Check out our answer here:
Q: Tell me, at what point does a person stop being mixed? If a Black and Asian marry, then their […]

JC

The Gallup Poll published their findings from their annual Minority Rights and Relations poll. Part of the survey questioned Americans on how they feel about interracial relationships — specifically between blacks and whites. Not surprisingly, they didn’t bother to survey people’s attitudes on any other couple configurations! Next, they surveyed people on their own […]

JC
College Publisher Network featured a piece on The Mixed Club, a new campus organization for mixed students at Washington University in St. Louis. The group hopes to bring about more understanding and visibility on campus. Good luck to the students of the Mixed Club!
White added that there is a lack of awareness on campus about […]

JC
The Sun-Sentinal interviews Mariza, a fado singer who has just released her third album, Transparente. She talks about her mixed heritage and how fado has grounded her in duality.
Singer Mariza sometimes feels out of place both in Portugal, where she has long lived, and Africa, where she was born. But the emerging star knows […]

JC
There have been tons of articles on Zadie Smith lately, with the publication of her third novel, On Beauty. In this article, she talks about how she arrives at creating her characters. What did she know about Judaism when she wrote her second novel, The Autograph Man? Not much she admits, but she called people […]

JC
We heard from actor Ian Chinsee about a new flick he is in. He is mixed and plays one part of an interracial couple in One Afternoon in the City, an Australian production. You can see the trailer here, and this is what he told us about the film. Sounds promising.
I recently starred […]

CVK
Good god. What is it with celebrities and naming their kids stupid things? From The Superficial:
Things are great if you’re Nic Cage. All your movies are well-received, nobody remembers that you were in Con Air, and you get to be married to a girl literally half your age - so young, in fact, that she […]

CVK

*Snicker* Looks like Vogue made a big boo-boo! From Gawker:
Oh, those poor, pretty girls over at Vogue. We want to help them, really, because they need it. In the latest issue, they used the photo at right to accompany a review of Zadie Smith’s On Beauty — sadly, the woman in the picture is not […]

CVK
(Thanks to Edwards-Dechet for this!) I hope I can catch a rerun of this, but on today’s episode of Oprah, she interviews the cast of the movie “Crash.” Terrence Howard shares a horrible incident that changed his life. This is one of the most sickening things I’ve ever read. It’s a sobering reminder of exactly […]

CVK
Renowned playwright August Wilson died of liver cancer on October 2nd at the age of 60. Below is an excerpt from the Village Voice’s obituary about Wilson:
As conscious of this history as he was of his own divided parentage (his father was not only white but a German immigrant), August was driven by two partially […]

CVK
Thanks to Norm for this one! The Mainichi Daily News ran an interesting article about what it’s like to be mixed in Japan. Here’s an excerpt:
It’s that fascination with the familiarly different that has women here running to plastic surgeons for eyelid incisions and nose jobs to look more Western.
Flattering in some ways? Of […]

JC

Anyone brave enough to check out Roll Bounce to see how they handle the character, Mixed Mike? He’s played by Khleo Thomas (in the superstar shirt above). Interesting that “mixed” is a part of his nickname…don’t know if that would be a likely term used to nickname someone in the 70s though…eh! Accuracy shmaccuracy!