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Truitt O'Neal

Jan 30, 2011 at 10:30 am

Young Biracial Americans Rejecting The Color Lines

Young Biracial Americans Rejecting The Color Lines

COLLEGE PARK, Md.– Many young adults of mixed backgrounds are rejecting the color lines that have defined Americans for generations in favor of a much more fluid sense of identity. The crop of students moving through college right now includes the largest group of mixed-race people ever to come of age in the United States, and they are only the vanguard: the country is in the midst of a demographic shift driven by immigration and intermarriage.

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Truitt O'Neal

Dec 10, 2010 at 2:11 pm

Biracials Still Subscribe To The “One Drop Rule”

Biracials Still Subscribe To The “One Drop Rule”

(CAMBRIDGE-Scientific Computing)

Years after slavery and Jim Crow laws, people of African and European heritage still consider themselves to be Black, according to a recent study.

The centuries-old “one-drop rule” assigning minority status to mixed-race individuals appears to live on in our modern-day perception and categorization of people like Barack Obama, Tiger Woods, and Halle Berry.

So say Harvard University psychologists, who’ve found that we still tend to see biracials not as equal members

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Jerry Smith

Jan 7, 2010 at 10:00 am

On Air Schedule

Former Israel And New Breed Singer Leah Smith Makes A Beautiful Debut

Former Israel And New Breed Singer Leah Smith Makes A Beautiful Debut