What Are You? A Dialogue on Mixed Race

Featured in the 2009 Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival in downtown Los Angeles

http://www.mxroots.org

The multiracial population may be small compared to the total population of the country, but they're springing up among the nation's youth. A once impossible thought is now playing a role in how people see race and racism, whether or not they're multiracial.

In this documentary, seven women share their experiences and the results highlight how complex the issue is as some deal with the struggle to be accepted by people who identify with one race while others have no trouble at all. You'll also hear how mixed celebrities affect the discourse.

Update: In the "Story Time" segment, Natalie's discussion on international experience reflected mostly on Mexico; there are complex issues with race in the Dominican Republic where she studied abroad.

To purchase a DVD copy of this program, please visit http://thesportsbrain1.blogspot.com

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[Tidusmax]

Am I the only one who noticed they were using songs from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time?

[SakuraLovesSasuke69]

@wiibot15 Me trash?HA!You are the one sitting there bashing me and other people that are different from you just because of the fact that they were born a fucking different race than your dumb-ass turn the tables and imagine if you were mixed like myself and had someone like you bashing them the way the way that you do you'd feel pretty damn hurt now wouldn't you?You know what I don't give a damn about ignorant trolls like yourself and I am FUCKING PROUD TO BE WHAT THE HELL I AM,A DAMN HUMAN!

[lilliemaye]

.N addition I wld like to add that ( the indian lady) who alwys hauled frm calling herself blck..news flash ur darker this most (african american) N we call ourselves blck..u don't hve to be african to be blck (news flash) well I guess frm now I shd jst stat calling myself (a person of color not black) now that makes sense.

[lilliemaye]

@BunnyR25 no...latinos are a mixture of races ....Black (african) white (spinards) and indigenous FYI..american..irish..puerto ricans..mexicans..south africans.brazilians is not a race .its classified as ethnic group...my skin is blck aka dark however I'm american of african decent (N european)..dominican..haitian and french ..continue..

[TheCatwoman229]

mixed race people are so beautiful!

[dangar45]

@SakuraLovesSasuke69 You should really educate yourself. In Eastern and Northern Europe none would have children with a Negro or another non-European. People here have light hair and eye colour and are a lot racially pure than Western Europe/USA. Even though I'm what you call mixed I don't like niggers and other foreign trash. Hell, why can't all you internationalist nigger lovers go to Africa and mix your degenerate genes there?

[TheCatwoman229]

@wiibot15 shut the fuck up asshole we are mixed whether you like it or not! go suck your mamas tittie!

[segano1]

@13:50, how many agree with that?

[martinakloi]

they all look hot :)

[jetblackhair92]

WHITE POWER OI OI OI

[hats177]

@wiibot15 well, then, who the flip are you????!] u r mean :(