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The Mixed Experience

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The top podcast about multiracial, multicultural, biracial & Mixed issues & experience. Interviews with artists, community leaders, scholars & regular folks. www.themixedexperience.com
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S3, Ep. 14: Multiracial Artist Lindsay Harris, Evoking the Mulatto

Evoking the Mulatto is a multiplatform narrative and visual art project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, within the context of the history of racial classification in the United States. Featuring filmed interviews with young mixed artists and activists, photographic portraits, and historical mappings, this project aims to explore a relevant contemporary issue by glimpsing at its chronicle. We are constantly fighting for the right to determine our own bodies and space. In this ...

Feb 22, 20160

S3, Episode 13: Award-winning multiracial writer Matt de la Pena

Matt de la Pe�±a is the New York Times Bestselling, Newbery Medal winning author of six young adult novels (including Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here and The Living) and two picture books (A Nations Hope and Last Stop on Market Street). Matt received his MFA in creative writing from San Diego State University and his BA from the University of the Pacific, where he attended school on a full athletic scholarship for basketball. de la Pe�±a currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his family. He tea...

Feb 17, 20160

S3, Episode 10: Author Sunil Yapa, Mixed Race Writing Phenom

Sunil Yapa holds a bachelorâ??s degree in economic geography from Penn State University and an MFA from Hunter College. The biracial son of a Sri Lankan father and mother from Montana, Yapa has lived around the world, including time in Greece, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, China, and India, as well as London, Montreal, and New York City.

Jan 18, 20160

S3, Episode 8: Multiracialism Informing Academic Work

I talk with four University of Michigan professors and their work illuminating the Mixed experience: Martha Jones,Mark Kamimura-Jimenez, Karen Downing and Edward West. They recently spoke on the same topic as part of a year-long series on multiracial and biracial identity at the university.

Dec 07, 20150

S3, Episode 5: Japanese War Brides Film & Biracial Daughters

This episode was pre-recorded in October 2015. I talk with the filmmakers of a powerful new documentary about the stories of the Japanese war brides who came to America after marrying American men. A touching & important film by their biracial daughters! http://www.fallsevengetupeight.com/

Nov 16, 20150

S3, Episode 4: YA Author Ashley Hope Perez

Ashley Hope P�©rez is the author of three novels: Out of Darkness (2015), The Knife and the Butterfly (2012), and What Canâ??t Wait (2011). Out of Darkness received starred reviews from School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, which called the novel â??a powerful, layered tale of love in times of unrelenting racism.â?? What Canâ??t Wait and The Knife and the Butterfly appear on YALSAâ??s 2012 Best Fiction for Young Adults and 2015 Popular Paperbacks lists. Ashley holds a doctorate in co...

Nov 09, 20150

S3, Episode 3: Writer Rhonda Roorda on Black Transracial Adoptees' Stories

Rhonda Roorda, adopted by a white family, is a highly-regarded national speaker on transracial adoption. Together with Rita Simon, she coauthored a landmark trilogy of books on transracial adoption (In Their Own Voices, In Their Parents' Voices, and In Their Siblings' Voices.) Ms. Roorda's groundbreaking new book builds on that trilogy and highlights the views of non-adopted black Americans.

Nov 02, 20150

S3, Episode 2: Debut Novelist Joy Stoffers

Joy Stoffers was raised in East Brunswick, NJ, by a Taiwanese mother and a Caucasian father. At the age of six she wrote, illustrated, and promptly recycled her first short story. Since then she dreamed of becoming a novelist. She holds a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle University. Harken Media will publish her debut novel, Whasian, on November 2nd, 2015.

Oct 26, 20150

S2, Summer Short 4: Writer Kristen Green

In the wake of the Supreme Courtâ??s unanimous decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, Virginiaâ??s Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools, locking and chaining the doors. The communityâ??s white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use for their all-white classrooms, while black parents scrambled to find alternative education for their children....

Aug 10, 20150

S2, Summer Short 3: German Filmmakers on German Biracial Experience

I'm excited to talk to the filmmakers behind a German documentary series Schwarz Rot Gold. Schwarz Rot Gold portrays ten famous German Black and talks about the past, present and future of identities and racism in Germany. The goal of the project is to raise awareness about racism in Germany and to present role models for young people. Learn more here. And check out their Facebook page too.

Aug 04, 20150

S2, Ep. 27: Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in America. His stories have appeared in Best New American Voices, TriQuarterly, Narrative, and the Chicago Tribune and he is the author of the academic book Race and Resistance. He teaches English and American Studies at the University of Southern California and lives in Los Angeles.

Jun 01, 20150

S2, Ep. 26: Mixed and Irish

Join my conversation with Mixed Irish writers Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, Dylan Amaro-McIntyre, Clare Ramsaran, and Caroline M. Mar.

May 18, 20150

S2, Ep. 25: Patricia Park, Author of ReJane, novel about a biracial adoptee

PATRICIA PARK was born and raised in Queens and is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science. She earned her BA in English from Swarthmore College and an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. A former Fulbright Scholar and Emerging Writer Fellow at the Center for Fiction, she has published essays in The New York Times, Slice, and the Guardian. She has taught writing at Boston University, CUNY Queens College, and Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

May 11, 20150
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