The Multiracial Activist - a publication dedicated to the struggle for and preservation of civil rights for multiracial individuals and interracial couples/families.

"Stand up and Sound off!!"

1996 Multiracial Issues in the Media
and Other Organizations


Click on the links below to read articles, stories and interviews published and broadcast by the nation's media.

Lexxicon: "Are Those Your Kids?"
by Linda Devault (Lexxicon)
http://www.lexxicon.com/yerkids.htm (1996)

*501 A Hand To Rock The Cradle: Transracial Adoption, The Multiethnic Placement Act, and a Proposal For the Arkansas General Assembly
by Chip Chiles (Arkansas Law Review and Bar Association)
http://lawreview.uark.exu/Online_Edition/articles96_97/articletexts/chilestxt.html (1996)

Lexxicon Talks to Konrad Hernblad
(Lexxicon)
http://www.lexxicon.com/konrad.htm (1996)

Secret Daughter
Frontline (PBS)
http://www2.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/secret/ (1996)

The Chosen One
by Gary Smith (Sports Illustrated)

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/golf/pga/features/tiger/chosen/ (December 23, 1996)

Ethnically Speaking: Man who hasn't spoken to his African-American pal in 43 years still hurt by their confrontation
by Larry G. Meeks (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1996/detroit/9612/12/12120071.htm (December 12, 1996)

After Adopting a Biracial Child
by Mitch Pearlstein (Star Tribune)
http://www.amexp.org/strib/strib12896.htm (December 8, 1996)

Commentary: The saga of Tiger Woods tells much about complexities of race
by Henry Yu (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1996/outlook/9612/09/12080009.htm (December 8, 1996)

Talk of the Nation: Transracial Adoption
(National Public Radio)
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=11172 (December 5, 1996)

More Multiracials, Fewer Blacks?
by Paul Magnusson (Business Week)

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/december/new1205b.htm (December 5, 1996)

Census Tests Category to Identify Racial Groups
by Steven A. Holmes (LatinoLink)

http://www.latinolink.com/news/1205ncen.htm (December 4, 1996)

The one-drop-of-blood rule
by Dinesh D'Souza (Forbes)

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/120296/5813048a.htm (December 2, 1996)

The new ingredient in the identity of black biracial children
by Larry E. Davis (The WU Record)

http://wupa.wustl.edu/nai/opeds/opeds96/davisDec96.html (December 1996)

Blurring the Lines: The Author of a `Bill of Rights' for Multiracial Americans Says It's Time to Recognize the Struggle of Those Born of Two Cultures.
by Jon Marmor (Columns)

http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/dec96/blurring1.html (December 1996)

Two Worlds, One Life: Growing Up Multiracial
by Stacie R. Yee (St. Anthony Online)

http://www.americancatholic.org/messenger/1296/feature2.html (December 1996)

"What Are You?: Multiracial in a Black-And-White World"
by Neal Thompson (New Jersey Reporter)

http://epn.org/njr/novdec96/multrace.htm (November/December 1996)

A PLACE FOR US From el Barrio to Suburbia
by Roger Hernandez (The New Jersey Reporter)

http://epn.org/njr/novdec96/barrio.htm (November/December 1996)

Ethnically Speaking: People who categorize others by their race should get to know them as individuals
by Larry G. Meeks (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1996/detroit/9611/21/11210114.htm (November 21, 1996)

'Whiteness' seminar challenges race bias
by David Lamb (Houston Chronicle)

http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/nation/96/11/20/white.html (November 20, 1996)

What are You? Multiracial in a Black-And-White World
by Neal Thompson (New Jersey Reporter)

http://www.njreporter.org/njreporter/pub/1996v26n4thompson.html (November/December 1996)

A Vested Interest In Maintaining Jim Crowism
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)

http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor8.html (November/December 1996)

The Medicalization of Race: Scientific Legitimization of a Flawed Social Construct
by Ritchie Witzig (Annals of Internal Medicine)
http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15oct96/medrace.htm (October 15, 1996)

Mixed-race couples, children brave racism
by Nichele Hoskins (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)

http://www.star-telegram.com:80/news/doc/1047/1:METRO73/1:METRO73101296.html (October 12, 1996)

Close-up: Scientists reject the traditional notion of races
by Robert S. Boyd (The Seattle Times)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/extra/browse/html/altgene_100996.html (October 9, 1996)

Racial Classifications Should Be Updated
by Joseph Diaz Calderon (Long Valley Times)

http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/2446/letters.htm (October 1, 1996)

He Never Cries Wolf
by Sarah Phelan (Metro Santa Cruz)

http://www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/09.12.96/native-9637.html (September 12 -18, 1996)

Compensation's Secret
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)

http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor7.html (September/October 1996)

More blacks and whites in America are tying the knot
by Mark Puls (The Detroit News)
http://www.detnews.com/1996/menu/stories/62577.htm (August 29, 1996)

Blood Simple: The politics of miscegenation.
by Eric Liu (Slate Magazine)
http://www.slate.com/Features/BloodSimple/BloodSimple.asp (August 20, 1996)

No harmony in unions of black, white
by Gregory Kane (The Baltimore Sun)
http://www.sunspot.net/columnists/data/kane/0814kane.shtml (August 14, 1996)

"Should Jews vote to dismantle affirmative action?" Racial preferences unfair
by Lawrence J. Siskind (Jewish Bulletin of Northern California)
http://www.jewishsf.com/bk960809/comm1.htm (August 9, 1996)

America is Experiencing an Unprecedented Increase in Black-White Intermarriage
by Douglas J. Besharov and Timothy J. Sullivan (The New Democrat)
http://www.dlcppi.org/tnd/9607/COVER4.HTM (July-August 1996)

Racial divisions marring planned solidarity march
(Nando Times)
http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/nation/072196/nation2_1944.html (July 21, 1996)

Multiracial and Wishing to be Counted
by Eunice Moscoso (LatinoLink)
http://www.latinolink.com/art/0713lmul.htm(July 13, 1996)

All Mixed Up
by Emil Guillermo (AsianWeek)

http://www.asianweek.com:80/71296/emil71296.html (July 12, 1996)

Does America Need a New Racial Category?
by Linda Matthews (LatinoLink)

http://www.latinolink.com/art/07061rac.htm (July 6, 1996)

Weekend All Things Considered: South African Intermarriage
by Renee Montagne (National Public Radio)
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=9147 (July 6, 1996)

Why the multiracial community must march!
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)

http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor6.html (July 1996)

The racial cul-de-sac
by William Javier Nelson (BRAZZIL)

http://204.140.220.54/p24jun96.htm (June 24, 1996)

In Thailand, biracial is hip
by Jiraporn Wongpaithoon (The Seattle Times)

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?slug=thai&date=19960614 (June 14, 1996)

Helms, Jackson - and "Others"
by Roger Hernandez (LatinoLink)
http://www.latinolink.com/opinion/rog0609.html (June 9, 1996)

Interracial romances are no crimes
by Staci J. Wahl (Iowa State Daily)
http://www.daily.iastate.edu/volumes/Spring96/Mar-19-96/op2-sw.html (May 19, 1996)

Interracial generation: "We are who we are"
by Daryl Strickland (Seattle Times)

http://www.seattletimes.com/topstories/browse/html/race_050596.html (May 5, 1996)

Many American Dilemmas: The statistical politics of counting by race and ethnicity
by Peter Skerry (The Brookings Review)

http://www.brookings.org/pub/review/skersu96.htm (Summer 1996 Vol. 14 No. 3)

How To Record Race
by Suzann Evinger (American Demographics)
http://www.marketingtools.com/publications/ad/96_ad/9605_ad/9605af02.htm (May 1996)

Louis Farrakhan: A Mixed-Race Jew?
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)

http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor5.html (May/June 1996)

Don't you dare list them as 'other': Multiracial Americans seek Full Recognition
by Hannah Beech (U.S. News & World Report)

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/birace.htm (April 8, 1996)

What a message to send as Easter Sunday nears
by Joe Murray (The Standard-Times)
http://www.s-t.com/daily/04-96/04-03-96/1aracism.htm (April 3, 1996)

Church refuses to marry biracial couple
(The Associated Press)
http://www.thonline.com/th/news/1996/th0404/stories/5738.htm (April 4, 1996)

'Loving' film follows interracial couple who won the right to wed
by Yvette Walker (The Detroit News)
http://www.detnews.com/menu/stories/41792.htm (March 29, 1996)

Biracial baby can remain in family plots
(Flambeau News)
http://www.floridaflambeau.com/Internet%20Back%20issues/032896/news4.html (March 28, 1996)

Multiculturalism: Identity politics leads activists to demand, "Don't call us white"
by Jonathan Tilove (The Detroit News)
http://www.detnews.com/menu/stories/38231.htm (March 3, 1996)

Kweisi Mfume: Perpetuating white "racial purity?"
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)

http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor4.html (March/April 1996)

Interracial Dating: Leave Our Love Alone
by Tabitha Suarez (The Brown Daily Herald)

http://www.netspace.org/herald/issues/022396/tabitha.f.html (February 23, 1996)

Biracial students spark heritage recognition movement
by Janet Singleton (Temple News)

http://newsroom.temple.edu/issues/Archives/Spring96/feb21/news4.html (February 21, 1996)

Regent, Senator Trade Insults At State Hearing
by Ryan Tate (Daily Cal)

http://www.dailycal.org/Issues/02.21.96/senate.txt (February 21, 1996)

'Wall Of Shame' Provokes Look At Interracial Dating
by Celeste Tarricone (The Brown Daily Herald)

http://www.netspace.org/herald/issues/020996/dating.f.html (February 9, 1996)

The color of love: A son discovers his mother's Jewish roots and his own identity
by Pam Janis (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/menu/stories/34144.htm (February 1, 1996)

Biracial people symbolize future of race
by Clarence Page (The Detroit News)

http://detnews.com/menu/stories/34007.htm (January 31, 1996)

The Melungeon People "Article in story form concerning the Melungeon people."
by Vern Jordan (the People's Paths home page)

http://www.yvwiiusdinvnohii.net/lit/molung.html (1996)

The Spiritual Journey of a Lumbee Granddaughter
by Gloria Dawn Luke Holback (Gloria's Genealogy and History Gateway)

http://www.geocities.com/heartland/plains/2604/Journey.htm (1996)

Racemixing - Worse Than Murder
by Kevin Alfred Strom (Free Speech)

http://www.natvan.com/free-speech/fs961c.html (January 1996)

''Lightningbolt'' Interview With Hyemeyohsts Storm
by Daniel Redwood D.C. (HealthWorld Online)

http://www.healthy.net/asp/templates/interview.asp?PageType=Interview&ID=215 (1996)


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