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Themes: Parents & Children

The Next America
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Intermarriage is playing a big role in changing some of our views of ethnicity - via Pew Research
White Parents Talking about Race
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Kids aren't colorblind! via Slate.com
10 Children's Books Exploring Mixed Heritage
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Recommendations from GrowingUpBlackxican.com
Intermarried
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Photographic portraits of mixed families by Yael Ben-Zion
PHOTOS: 3rd Annual What Are You?
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A discussion about mixed heritage
Coming Out as Biracial
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Stephanie Georgopulos on her mixed experience, via Medium
Suzanne Lacy's Stoop Talk: Gender, Labor, and Gentrification
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Report back from Between the Door and the Street
Reading Series: Quantifying Bloodlines
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Join others interested in discussing family history, DNA, and the myth of purity.
What's Biology Got to Do with It? The Social Life of Genetics
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Part 1 in our reading series: Quantifying Bloodlines
Between the Door and the Street
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A public performance about gender politics, labor, and women's rights in Brooklyn; initiated by Suzanne Lacy with Creative Time and Brooklyn Museum
Anna Roberts
Oral History

"All of the places that I grew up, they were mostly suburban, mostly white neighborhoods. In general, our family looked a lot different than most of the other families that lived in the area.  I definitely think that we were probably one of the only mixed families in upstate New York; and definitely Hudson, Massachusetts; and definitely in Larchmont, New York.

What's Purity Got to Do with It? Searching Family History & Genealogy
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Part 2 on our readings series Quantifying Bloodlines
"She's like a poster baby for the U.N.!"
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And other comments a mother of multiracial children hears often
Dear Parents of White Children
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An open letter via Huffington Post
Video from Loving Day NYC 2013
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Check out the celebration
Kids React to Cheerios Commercial
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And the news that it ignited racist responses
Photos from Loving Day 2013
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Photos from Loving Day 2013 in New York City
Love, No Matter What
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TED talk by Andrew Solomon
Inspired by a Cheerios Ad
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Crowd-sourced collection of interracial family photographs
Photos of Mixed Heritage Storytime!
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Three books that celebrate mixed and international heritage

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