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The Los Angeles Times reviews “Tea“, the new production by Velina Hasu Houston about war brides and their lives and families. The show is currently running at the International City Theater in Long Beach, CA. This reviewer doesn’t have many nice things to say and seems to think that it is all done in a […]

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Stanley Crouch of the New York Daily News ponders the rising rates of black female-white male relationships. He attributes the growth of these couples to the vast shortage of black men available to black women. He blames high rates of incarceration and fear of medical care. Thanks to Kim D. for the heads up on […]

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Newswise reports on a study to come out of the University of Maryland about marriages where one partner is black and one partner is white. While many of the interviewees mention that race is not central to the issues they face as a couple, the study shows that it remains an important dimension of the […]

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Personally I’m sick to death of the whole Strom Thurmond / Essie Mae Washington-Williams thing, but it is my duty to report that yet another book is coming out soon on the topic later this month. Dateline Alabama reviews Strom: The Complicated Personal and Political Life of Strom Thurmond by Jack Bass and Marilyn W. […]

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On the 50th Anniversary of the death of Emmett Till, federal authorities have taken interest in further exploring the case and plan to exhume Till’s body. In 1955, this black youth who was visiting relatives was dragged from his bed and brutally murdered after he was witnessed whistling at a white woman earlier in […]

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An article in AsianWeek questions why everyone is so blase about the recent attacks at Princeton University, in which 28-year-old doctoral student Michael Lohman (pictured) surreptitiously cut locks of hair from at least nine Asian women, poured his urine and semen into the drinks of Asian women more than 50 times, and stole Asian women’s […]

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Paris Hilton’s character in the recent film “House of Wax” dates a black man and believes she is pregnant by him. When reporters asked her what she thought of the fact that the black man/white girl pairing would have been controversial just 20 years ago, this is what she had to say:
“I never would look […]

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Sad that this kind of thing is still so commonplace. An interracial couple in Charlotte, NC found a cross burning in their backyard recently. Police are trying to determine if it’s a hate crime. By the sounds of it, this isn’t the first act of intimidation the couple has faced:
Kim and Robert Mackey say […]

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The NY Times featured an article in their Sunday Styles section about Mavin’s Generation Mix tour and some of the other activism that is coming out of the mixed community. We were especially excited to have Mixed Media Watch mentioned! This is definitely one of the better articles we have seen written about the mixed […]

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Nirali Magazine highlights Navi Rawat, an up and coming actress in her 20s. She is recently getting a lot of attention for her ability to play a diversity of roles (the New York Daily News just named her a “Hot Face to Watch” in its January issue). In this article, she discusses her mixed heritage […]

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(Thanks to Asian Dude for this one!) Blog Purifying Flames questions the double standard of media coverage surrounding the Princeton attacks on Asian women. Why is it that these attacks are described merely as “lewd behavior,” when an almost-identical case involving all white female victims is referred to as “assault” and involves much harsher punishment?
As […]

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Wow, this guy wins the Asian Fetishist of the Year award. Princeton grad student Michael J. Lohman was arrested for more than 50 incidents of harassment targeting Asian women on the Princeton University campus. His crimes? Stealing panties, cutting locks of hair, squirting into women’s drinks… should I go on? Here’s a report from ZWire:
Investigators […]

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The Tennessean talks to Nate Creekmore, a senior at Lipscomb University. Creekmore has won several awards for Maintaining, the comic strip he writes for the campus paper. His own experiences being mixed have definitely fueled the comic, which features a biracial character named Marcus. It’s possible that when he graduates, Maintaining will make it into […]

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The Office for National Statistics has published a new report on inter-ethnic marriage statistics in the U.K:
Two per cent of marriages were between people from different ethnic backgrounds (219,000). Of these inter-ethnic marriages, most (198,000) included a White person…
The most common inter-ethnic marriages were between White and Mixed race people, 26 per cent of all […]

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UCBerkeley News follows up on their article of last week about four mixed students in order to highlight some additional thoughts from other members of the Berkeley community.
Thus, for me, race is an artificial construct, which isolates me from those unknowledgeable of the biracial experience. At the same time, my races help me […]

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Ew! Ew! Ew! and Ew! Just saw this on Angry Asian Man. There’s a “club” for Hawaiian women who married white men, it’s called the Haole Hubby Club - they even have t-shirts and crap like that. The Honolulu Advertiser did a story on them. Here’s what the Club says in their About Us section:
The […]

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OK, so Ashton Kutcher doesn’t get paid the big bucks because of his highly developed intellect. Sorry, that’s mean….but check out what he has to say about interracial dating. About.com prints an interview with Ashton from the Hollywood Premiere of “Guess Who“.
When “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” came out decades ago, it made an […]

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Deborah Santana, wife of Carlos Santana, discusses her experiences, relationships, and mixed identity in new memoir, Space Between the Stars.
Born Deborah King in San Francisco in 1951, Santana is the daughter of a biracial marriage. Her father, African-American blues pioneer, guitarist, and distinguished tenor, Saunders King, cut the first significant electric blues record, 1942’s “SK […]

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The Los Angeles Times talks race with Senator Barack Obama. The interviewer assumes that Barack will have a hard time should he ever decide to run for the US Presidency, due to the things he discloses in his memoir, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance. In this book originally published before […]

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The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports on the shutting down of Panzerfaust. This white-supremacy record label has gotten a lot of attention for their proactive distribution of hateful anti-ethnic messages to teenagers across the country. In September, Panzerfaust announced plans to pass out 100,000 copies of a “pro-white sampler CD.” Now they are in the […]