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Themes: Love & Marriage

Reorienting After a Mixed-Race Relationship Ends
Article
via The New York Times: "But when I fell in love with Daniel, my whiteness no longer told the whole story."
PHOTOS: The Loving Story in Queens with filmmaker Nancy Buirski
Article
Filmmaker Nancy Buirski talks about the making of The Loving Story and what inspired her.
PHOTOS: Our Children Will Be President
Article
What does this 1967 movie have to do with President Obama?
Sonnet Takahisa
Oral History

“I remember getting in trouble with a substitute teacher...I was looking at the window, and he said, 'You, sit down in your seat. You’re making a bad name for your race.' And I was like, 'Excuse me, but I’m probably the same race as you.'”

Asian-American Interracial Marriage Rates Bucking Trend
Article
"For Asian-American Couples, A Tie that Binds"
Interracial Brooklyn
Exhibit

A sociologist looks at the increasing percentage of marriages in the US, New York City, and Brooklyn that are interracial and describes how social science can provide explanations for -and raise new questions about- the world we live in.

 

Lenge Hong
Oral History

"When I would say Eurasian, nobody would know what I was talking about. So I would go I’m half Chinese, and half Scottish - which I actually still do. I went through stages in my life of different emotional reactions to that question: What are you?"

The Rise of Intermarriage
Article
The Pew Research Center released new data on The Rise of Intermarriage: Rates, Characteristics Vary by Race and Gender.
PHOTOS: Jungle Fever discussion at BAM
Article
Photographs of the post-screening discussion of Spike Lee's Jungle Fever.
Teresa Ish
Oral History

 "Most people would not even guess that I was half Chinese.  It’s really nice for traveling.  If I keep my mouth shut, I can kind of fake it almost anywhere.  But, you know, obviously once I speak everyone knows I’m American."


Watch & Discuss the groundbreaking 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
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"You think of yourself as a colored man, I think of myself as a man." - John Prentice (Sidney Poitier) in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Watch & Discuss the film Something New with sociologist Erica Chito-Childs
Article
“Where are the brothers?” - from Something New
Jungle Fever 20 Years Later
Article

Watch Spike Lee’s iconic 1991 movie about mixed-heritage relationships, Jungle Fever, and hear how three panelists respond to the movie 20 years later.

Voices of Mixed Heritage: Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations
Teacher Resource

Voices of Mixed Heritage: Crossing Borders, Bridging Generations is an interdisciplinary curriculum designed for grades 6–12. We invite students and educators to engage with the topic of mixed heritage and identity in the United States from the mid-19th century to the present.

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