A documentary premiering at the 49th annual Mill Valley Film Festival" takes inspiration from Marin County. "The Unrooted ...

As the rigid racial politics of our country are challenged by an increasing number of people who identify as biracial, we need to change how we treat those who choose to identify differently from ...

The practice of passing — identifying with and presenting oneself as one race while denying ancestry of another — reached its peak during the Jim Crow era. Needless to say, the notion of having to ...

Newswise — In a country with Jim Crow segregation laws and the “one-drop rule” determining who was black and therefore where and what a person was permitted to be, it’s easy to see why those who ...

Ethnic identity is a multifaceted concept that describes how people develop and experience a sense of belonging to their culture. Traditions, customs, and feelings about one’s heritage are also ...

Interracial and interethnic marriages have been increasing in the United States, now accounting for one in six new marriages (Pew Research Center, 2017) and resulting in a greater population of ...

Americans who say that being Black is important to their identity often differ from other Black adults in their views about coverage of Black people, solutions to unfair coverage and the role of Black ...

*Legendary actress/singer (“Santa Baby”) Eartha Kitt spent her entire life haunted by the mystery of her biological father. Born in 1927 in South Carolina to a 14-year-old Black and Cherokee girl, ...

What are you? That’s a question that people who are biracial get asked all the time, either directly or indirectly. Are you Black? Are you White? Are you Latino? If you are mixed race in the U.S., you ...

“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction,” the late great Toni Morrison once said. “It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your ...