Tag: Multiracial

Itwas late October 2017 when I had a memorable experience at my company’s headquarters in Barcelona. I was in the printing room with my colleague Verónica, preparing the documentation for a briefing that afternoon. We were conversing amiably, discussing the second season of La Casa d...

Conference, & I hope they make a Forspoken 2  A church in which no ethnoracial group makes up 50% or more of the congregation is NOT multiracial — it is an ethnoracially diverse church or a racially diverse church. Using the term multiracial to describe a setting with an ...

Multiracial PRIDE Day By 2007, the multiracial movement succeeded in establishing two official days celebrating multiraciality. These celebrations are now recognized at the municipal and state levels in parts of Amazonas. They encompass festivities that have included musical performances as well ...

I am the multiracial child of a Taiwanese immigrant, herself the child of parents who fled the Chinese Communist Revolution, and a White parent with French–Scottish heritage. I spent my childhood summers in Taiwan and the rest of the year in San Antonio, Texas. In Texas, my brother and I we...

It is urgent and has to be addressed that Black multiracial people have unmet needs for mental health treatment. Despite the fact that mental health issues are common in this community, a number of barriers keep individuals from getting the proper care and support. Disturbing and conflicting in...

South African Coloreds must not be confused with South African Blacks, given that to be “Colored” in South Africa means being torn between White, Black, and Asian. To be Colored means more privileged than Blacks and less privileged than Whites. Colored South Africans don’t embrace ...

Was I an American? A Mexican? A Filipino? I had relatives from more than one culture, from different parts of the country as well as different parts of the world. They looked different than I did. A few had my complexion. Or my hair. Or my frame. But no one looked quite like me. My only...

Preliminary Data [Pre-PrePrint] 1. Interracial couples are more likely to be interreligious, and interracial couples have multiracial children. 2. Thus, it follows that multiracial individuals should be more likely to grow up in households where their parents are different religions. 3. Mor...

Raising awareness of this issue which obstructs multiracial students from experiencing the wholeness of who they are in higher education Most multiracial & multiethnic respondents indicated that erasure is an issue they’ve dealt with in college, χ2(1, N = 104) = 30.15, p < .001, ...

Some hair is harder to work with than others. This is an unfortunate truth that many people of colour face on a daily basis. This can be even more intense for multiracial people, as their hair may function and grow in an unusual way compared to their parents and ancestors. I’m lucky enough tha...

UCSD’s Mixed Student Union believe offering a “Multiracial” category should be part of the solution. In fact, in Spring 2021, we (along with my my independent study lab) successfully had the subject pool here in UCSD’s Psych department add a Multiracial option, a disaggregate...

This week, we’re sharing our interview with Hannah H. Kim, a recent Stanford Ph.D. graduate, who wrote an op-ed in The Stanford Daily about multiracialism or the discussion of identifying as more than one race. Kim, who identifies as Korean American and was born in the U.S., beg...

Cristina Diaz (one of my RAs & the Mixed Student Union President here at UC San Diego) and I created a survey item to assess the degree to which Multiracial & Multiethnic undergraduate students feel a part of their identity hasn’t been considered in the opportunities offered to them wh...

When I was little, I was fortunate to spend lots of time with both sides of my mixed heritage. With my Latvian grandmother. I learned how to play the violin, sing Latvian nursery rhymes, and solve puzzles. I watched my father converse in a language that I didn’t understand, but felt complet...

“Faith in Christ Jesus is what makes each of you equal with each other, whether you are a Jew or a Greek, a slave or a free person, a man or a woman.” — Galatians 3:28 Awaken Sunday We are closing out our 21 Days of Prayer journey with a special Awaken Sunday focused on familie...

In Southern California, this is a game we like to play to introduce you to the neighborhood. Everyone gets a turn, and the more interesting your response, the better the game gets. I loved being asked this question in high school, and then begging people to guess where they thought my family was fro...