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(Thanks to Phil C for this one!) Erica Schlaikjer just wrote an interesting article for her school paper about the fact that mixed students at Northwestern University don’t feel the need to start an official multiracial organization to feel that they fit in.

Northwestern has cultural groups for almost everyone, from the Chinese Students Association to the Polish American Students Alliance. But no formal organization exists for students who are multiracial. NU’s Web site lists about 1.8 percent of current freshmen as “multiracial.”

There are at least six informal groups of multiracial students on Facebook.com, including “Ethnically Ambiguous Kids Clique,” “Mixed Kid Club!” and “Let’s Make Some Mutt Babies (and Be Anti PC).”…

“Part of the joy of being mixed-race is that you have a lot of different backgrounds to draw from, so why sign up for a racially themed group to begin with, whether it’s mixed-race, black, Asian, White or whatever?” he said.

By the way, check out the great article Erica wrote for EurasianNation.com back in 2003 about the growing field of mixed race studies.