Category: Same Family, Different Colors
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“Black Lives Matter” Has South Asians Confronting Colorism
Hello Meltingpot Community, As many of you know, in 2016 my book about colorism, Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families was released. In that book, I wrote about how colorism manifests in Asian American, African American, Latino and Mixed Race Families. While I have been tangentially writing and talking about colorism…
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Love in the time of Corona
Hello Meltingpot Community, What did you do this weekend? Me? I officiated my little brother’s wedding. Via Zoom. He was in Baltimore, I was in Philadelphia. But despite the physical distance between us, and the coldness of a computer screen, we still managed to have a meaningful, multicultural celebration of love. It was my first…
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MAMP Podcast Ep#28: Guess Who’s Afraid of Interracial Relationships?
Hello Meltingpot Community, We made it to Season 4! On episode 28 of the podcast we are going to be talking about interracial relationships in the 21st century. More specifically, we’re going to discuss why, 53 years after the Loving decision made interracial marriage legal in all 50 states, we are still divided over interracial…
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MAMP Q&A: Diedre Anthony of “Are Those Your Kids?”
Hello Meltingpot Community, It’s Monday and I have another Q&A with an amazing meltingpot mom and content creator. Diedre Anthony is a school counselor, farmer’s wife, and mother to three biracial children. She resides in South Georgia and has an obsession for office supplies, curly hair products and shoes. On her blog Are Those Your…
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Diverse News Digest: Black hair, White Babies and IKEA
Hello Meltingpot Readers, Are you ready for your weekly dose of diverse news? This week’s news stories don’t disappoint when it comes to diversity. You may be enraged or inspired by what you read here, but you will most definitely be informed about what is keeping our world colorful. Enjoy! Dreadlocks on the Mat Remember…
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Get Ready for the Debut of Mixed-ish!
Hello Meltingpot Readers, With two popular -Ish shows under their belts, ABC is about to debut one more new series based on their popular and on-point comedy, Black-ish. The new show is called Mixed-ish and it is the origin story of the Mixed-Race mom on Black-ish, Rainbow Johnson (played by Tracee Ellis-Ross). The series is…
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Is a Mixed-Race Family on Network TV News Anymore?
Remember that 2013 Cheerios commercial that had the racists losing their pea-sized minds? You know, the one that featured a Black dad, a white mom and their adorable little brown daughter who wanted her dad to eat Cheerios to make sure he stayed healthy. So many racists left evil, nasty messages on the Cheerios YouTube…
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Colorism in the Mixed-Race Family
Hello Meltingpot Readers, When you think of colorism, what’s the first community you think of? Is it the African-American community, with their #teamlightskin #teamdarkskin hashtags? Is it the the Latinx community, considering baseball legend Sammy Sosa and hip hop star Amara La Negra keep making colorism headlines? Maybe when you think about colorism, your mind…
