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Tag: Family

Making Space to Talk About Race
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Oral history allows for multiplicity: for the varied, nuanced, and complicated stories of identity and experience to be told, instead of flattened to static racial categories.

Photos from 11th Annual Loving Day Flagship Celebration - NYC
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Photos & updates from Loving Day flagship celebration - 2014
Mixed Mondays Film Series - Toasted Marshmallows
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Part 3 of Mixed Mondays film series is the first U.S preview of Toasted Marshmallows' documentary about mixed-race women in North America
Mixed Mondays Film Series - My Beautiful Laundrette
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Part 2 of Mixed Mondays film series is Oscar-nominated My Beautiful Laundrette - about mixed, immigrant, and queer relationships in London
Mixed Mondays Film Series - Imitation of Life
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Part 1 of our summer Mixed Monday film series is a 1959 Lana Turner classic - Imitation of Life
Loving v. Virginia in Historical Context
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As important as Loving v. Virginia (1967) was, prohibitions on interracial marriage were in fact the last segregation laws to be invalidated. Loving reflected these broader political developments in the arena of race more than it caused them.
Celebrate Loving Day 2014!
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11th annual celebration in New York!
On National Geographic's Prediction for 2050
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Will increased racial mixing finally and permanently redefine how we imagine our racial identities?
White Parents Talking about Race
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Kids aren't colorblind! via Slate.com
1870's Interracial Couples
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African-American / Irish couples in 1870s NYC via The New York Times
10 Children's Books Exploring Mixed Heritage
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Recommendations from GrowingUpBlackxican.com
PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You?
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A discussion about mixed heritage
What's Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History & Genealogy
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Part 2 on our readings series Quantifying Bloodlines
Photos from Loving Day 2013
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Photos from Loving Day 2013 in New York City
LOVING DAY Celebration NYC
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Celebrate Loving v. Virginia ~ Free ~ Multicultural ~ Family Friendly ~ Waterfront
Asian-American Interracial Marriage Rates Bucking Trend
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"For Asian-American Couples, A Tie that Binds"