The weekend of June 11-12 is a big occasion for Hapa families: Loving Day! Oh, what’s that, you ask? Read on to find out more about the Supreme Court ruling that all people in mixed-race marriages should be thankful for.
Loving Day and the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival
Mixed Race Matters
Recently, the New York Times ran an article “Black? White? Asian? More Young Americans Choose All of the Above” examining the changing (or not-changing) attitudes toward people of mixed-race. The report spotlighs a group of college students in the Multiracial and Biracial Student Association at the University of Maryland.
What Am I?
I was talking to a mom friend today, who has two hapa daughters. She was telling me how her six year-old daughter remarked, “I’m Chinese and American!” “No,” she corrected, “You’re Chinese and white. We’re ALL American.” Which leads to me to an interesting observation. For as much as I ponder the significance of ethnicity […]