Taking back "What are You?"
"What are YouTube?" was posted by Louie Gong, President Elect of the MAVIN Foundation, after attending a gathering of multiracial leaders in February of 2008. The grass...
Taking back "What are You?"
"What are YouTube?" was posted by Louie Gong, President Elect of the MAVIN Foundation, after attending a gathering of multiracial leaders in February of 2008. The grassroots video challenged people of mixed heritage to answer the question What Are You? on their own terms. In May of 2008, it inspired dozens of video responses and hundreds of thank you letters when it was prominently featured at MSNBC.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24542138/), where it received over a hundred thousand views. Several of the video responses (many not published here on YouTube) are on display as part of the Wing Luke Asian Museums mixed race exhibit, My Place or Yours: Mixed APIAs.
What are YouTube? and the subsequent video responses are excellent tools for sparking dialogue about the mixed heritage population. If youre a teacher or facilitator, please feel free to use What are Youtube? in your efforts to raise awareness about one of Americas fastest growing subpopulations.
Additionally, we invite you to respond to this video with your own. Remember, you can answer the question in whatever way feels right for you.
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i am 1/4 chinese, 1/2 latina (black, native and caucasian mix), and 1/4 caucasian- 100% caribbean. i grew up in a family where no one looks alike. no one but my mother's paternal family is of a 'pure' origin because we've been mixing for generations. mixed and proud :)
I'M Half white and Half black genetically, but my complextion is brown. In white society that makes me black. Thats how they saw Bob Marley who was also mixrace. And , as I've noticed, they hate the mixrace person who has a Jamaican background. Why ? Because Jamaicans put up more resistance to white peoples oppression towards darker people of the Earth. What did they call Obama ? The first BLACK president , when he is really the first MIXRACED President.
I'm 1/2 Black, 1/4 Native American (Ojibwe on dad's side and Blackfoot on Mom's side), and 1/4 Caucasian (French on my dad's side and Irish on my Mom's side). I am only connected to my Mom's side of the family.
Japnese, German, Russian, Chinese, Carribean (Trinidad & Tobago), but most people think I'm Mexican since I'm dark because of tennis season right now :(
I also can remember stepping on slugs in my bare feet on my way to the outhouse. And sharing bathwater with my brother. I also remember eating salmon with rice. I am a...WASHINGTONIAN! (Currently living in Ferndale, about 15 miles from the Nooksack Tillicum.) :-)
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I also remember eating salmon with rice.
I am a...WASHINGTONIAN! (Currently living in Ferndale, about 15 miles from the Nooksack Tillicum.) :-)