JC
No surprise I guess that the KKK would want to rally against immigration. It’s just that it still baffles my mind that the KKK exists and is active — but I am in my little NYC bubble (or so I think …there are actually quite a few hate groups here….but one never hears of them, […]

CVK
(Spotted this over at Sepia Mutiny.) Wow, I’m going to have to tune in tonight for this idiocy. Anderson Cooper is interviewing Angelina Julie on CNN tonight at 10 PM Eastern. Here’s what she says about her plans to adopt yet another child:
The pair are planning to adopt another child, Jolie told CNN, according to […]

JC
Thanks to my brother Dave for the heads-up on this. Wow. Now a shirt that depicts the stereotype of the taboo affair that yields a brown baby. Awesome. Btw, there’s a bloggy aspect to the site where people can comment on the designs. Most of the responses on this shirt site say that people looooove it…. but […]

JC
An article in the Daily Mail explores the problems that still exist for interracial couples in the UK — interesting that this piece focuses specifically on couples that feature one Asian/Muslim partner, and one black/Afro-Caribbean partner. But I guess it makes sense when those are the two largest minority groups. Thanks to Tony for the tip!
Model […]

JC
Thanks to April for the heads-up about this! June Cross, a journalist, tells the story of her growing up mixed and adopted through Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away. She talks about growing up with a black family and the racial gap that existed between she and her mother […]

CVK
The Washington Post recently teamed up with Stanford University to study how racial cues affected people’s willingness to grant aid to Katrina victims. Here’s MoJo Blog’s round-up of the major findings:
People were willing to give assistance to a white victim, on average, for about 12 months, and they were willing to give the same amount […]

CVK
Zadie Smith has been widely lambasted in the media (especially in the U.K.) for being unpleasant, ungrateful, and snobby. As I wondered back in March, do these perceptions have anything to do with her race? Anyway, she seems like a perfectly pleasant person in this interview with The Times, and has some interesting things to […]

JC & CVK
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RANT
The fascination people have with finding out the race of your partner, and the assumptions they make based on that information are the […]

CVK
Last month marked the 25th anniversary of Bob Marley’s death. (Sorry, I told you I’ve been behind!) This article has some interesting stuff on his mixed identity:
It was 25 years ago, on May 11th, when reggae music icon and international star Bob Marley died. Marley’s name keeps on resonating because of his contributions in projecting […]

CVK
(Thanks to Geraly for this tip!) The Columbia Missourian just ran a long article about the politics of racial classification of mixed race people. Unfortunately, the story makes it seem as if time froze in 1997. The article is fully of shoddy research and the reporter completely misses the point.
The focus of the article is […]

CVK
A round-up of articles and blog posts I’ve come across recently.
The Challenge of Being Me
InterfaithFamily.com

…Except I don’t feel radical. I feel like a normal person going about my life. I also don’t feel like a societal misfit, but according to daytime talk shows the Jews in my life are supposed to hate blacks and […]

CVK & JC
Hey MMW readers, we have a favor to ask of you. We really appreciate all the interesting discussions that go on in the comments section. However, we’ve also noticed a tendency for people to post under different handles, and even assume completely different identities. We know it’s from the same person because as […]

CVK
(Thanks to Angry Asian Man for this gem!) Jen and I talk a lot about the idea of “racial scripts.” One of the reasons people always want to know exactly what “race” us ambiguous-looking folks are, is that they simply cannot interact with us until they can mentally categorize us. That’s because so many […]

CVK
Sorry folks, I’ve fallen a bit behind with the news stories lately, so some of these are a few weeks old.
Love Actually: Talking with Ken Tanabe, founder of Loving Day
The Village Voice
“For Ken Tanabe, a 28 year old designer of Belgian-Japanese descent, June 12 is sacred. That’s the anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling […]

CVK
(Thanks to Kaushal for this tip!) Really interesting essay in the latest issue of Newsweek, written by a Filipina woman now living in the U.S. who has a mixed (Filipino/white) son. On a trip back to the Philippines, she notices how much people ogle her son, and wonders if she should take advantage of […]

JC
I am not convinced that what we need right now is defined and separate spaces (on TV!) for such specific communities. MTV apparently thinks it’s a good idea. Saw this on Angry Asian Man…Not only is there a new soon-to-be network focused on Korean culture (MTV K), but there’s also MTV Chi which I apparently missed a few months […]

Nina (a returning MMW guest contributor!)
Here is an interesting piece I came across…..In the June 19 issue of People Magazine there is a story on Prince Albert of Monaco and the children he has fathered out of wedlock.
The article is primarily about his recently revealed 14 year old white daughter who lives in California with […]

JC
Nice little story in the Christian Science Monitor — a mom of mixed and transracially adopted kids reflects on a time when she took a stranger’s solemn staring as an act of hostility, but was instead pleasantly surprised.
…it was quite an experience going out in public with them. My husband and I were sometimes asked if we […]

CVK
I caught the premiere episode of NBC’s new drama Windfall this weekend, and immediately noticed the mixed family on the show.
For those who haven’t heard about this new series yet, it’s about a group of people who all play the lottery together, and end up hitting the jackpot. You see each character’s story thread: how […]

JC
I love that in this People spot, the focus was on the fact that all of their children are girls — race isn’t mentioned at all!
“In this crazy patriarchal world we live in, we are doing our part to balance the energy. We are proud to announce the completion of our goddess trilogy with the […]