Check out this article about the mixed race movement in the New York Times. It highlights the efforts of mixed race youth in defining their identity and calling for a celebration of ethnic diversity. I think the ending quote from the student president of this college’s Multiracial and Biracial Student Association is very telling of the attitude of young mixed people today:

“I don’t want a color-blind society at all,” Ms. Wood said. “I just want both my races to be acknowledged.”

Also, check out the video.

Books I’m currently reading and will soon post about:

Other Tongues: Mixed Race Women Speak Out (Edited by Adebe De-Rango-Adem & Andrea Thompson)

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self ( by Danielle Evans)

You Have Given Me A Country (by Neela Vaswani)

I was very excited to hear that Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, will be reading at Book Passage in Corte Madera.  Click here for event info.