Tag: mixed race

How a journalist found her voice as her mother lost hers.

When Ijeoma Oluo offers to buy her aging white mother a home, her mother worries she’s become a burden.

Jennifer Chong Schneider considers what it is to be Asian, maligned, and fetishized in dating — and questions her own desire when she dates someone of her own ethnicity for the first time.

After finding a note left by his grandfather, Aram Mrjoian considers how writing about the Armenian diaspora could help prevent history from being forgotten.

Aram Mrjoian reflects on his experiences of being part Armenian in America.

Nina Coomes unpacks the origins and legacies of the Japanese word hafu, or half.

In an essay for the Guardian, writer and journalist Margo Jefferson considers how the new multiculturalism of the House of Windsor has refreshed the royal house’s relevancy and appeal. Markle majored in international relations and theatre at Northwestern University, Illinois. Besides becoming an actor, she became a feminist who worked for UN Women as an advocate for political […]

Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.

Dara Lurie reflects on what she discovered about her own racism while living at a state-run home for disadvantaged children.

The African American son of a white mother, Santi Elijah Holley revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.

On belonging — and not belonging — in two worlds at once.

Sorayya Khan recalls racist threats to her young sons after the 2001 attacks, and worries about them as young men living in ‘Trumpistan.’