What are YouTube?: multiracial and mixed heritage folks

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.

MAVIN Projects:
http://www.Mavinfoundation.org/
http://www.mixedheritagecenter.org/

Join our MAVINs Facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204953655&ref=ts

These creative folks helped inspire What are YouTube? Erik Hamako named the project.
http://www.louiegong..com/
http://www.laurakina.com/
http://www.ipride.org/index.html
http://www.mascsite.org/
http://www.anomalythefilm.com/

Thanks -Louie Gong, MAVIN

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Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• multiracial
• mixed
• race
• what
• are
• you
• biracial
• racisicm
• movement
• creole
• metis
• blood
• quantum

[bossladig]

I'm mixed with African - American, Cherokee Indian and European-Jew and I am proud of it. I'm Happy to be a Mixican

[TheMrMixedbloods]

My Dad is half American and Half Spanish and also My Mom is Half Filipino and Half Japanese. Im proud to be MULTIRACIAL!!!

[dangar45]

50% Russian 50% West African. I only like the Russian part though

[exotiq88]

I'm a multiracial (black/white/asian) Hispanic (or Latina) immigrant from Latin America. I classify myself as Hispanic in the USA.  Racially, I'm mixed....I don't choose one side of my racial makeup because I don't believe in the 'one drop rule' and I shouldn't have to anyway. I appear racially ambiguous and I embrace all of me and loving it! :)

[ChelseaNicole10]

My mom is Black White and Blackfoot Indian, and my father is Mexican and Cherokee. What does that make me.....it makes me, me. I'm proud to be multiracial and see from multiple perspective.

[devolutionone]

I'm Korean from my mom and African American/ Irish from my dad. Adopted by French Canadian (white) family... I think 360..

[tripez206]

When people ask me what is my daughter I say she's Mexican , white and native american and leave it as that , but before all that they always ask me if she is my daughter or assume I'm the nanny :-/ .

[MultiSmartass1]

@thegreatestoutthere As someone who is Black/caucasian, the answer-based on my reading, research and viewing of videos and documentaries on the subject-is no.

AAs have a vested interest in racial solidarity-even though there is little of it in evidence.

Their adoption knowingly or unknowingly of the One Drop Rule has hurt many biracials.

I think it is a waste of time to lobby AA to change their attitudes and accept people of biracial and mutiracial status as themselves.

[papichulo364]

I'm a mixed Haitian Latino of French, Spanish, Taino Indian, Asian, East Indian, and European heritage. Also consisting of Dominican, Creole, Caribbean, and Native American.

[thegreatestoutthere]

@DaTruth2024 quadroons look just like exotic white people

[thegreatestoutthere]

when will AAs finally learn to distinguish race and social designations? seriously, its about time

india arie is black and african american

beyonce is multiracial and african american

walter francis white was WHITE but simply restricted by laws of the time