1998 Multiracial Issues in the Media and Other Organizations

Click on the links below to read articles, stories and interviews published and broadcast by the nation’s media.

How white am I?
by Myra Lee Salcedo (Midland Reporter-Telegram)
http://www.mrt.com/cols/archives/9812/myra28.html (December 28, 1998)

Interracial Marriages Eroding Barriers
by Michael A. Fletcher (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/dec98/melt29.htm (December 28, 1998)

Washington Post Columnist Questions Lott’s “Fitness” To Be Majority Leader
by Steven Rendall (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting – FAIR)
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/lott-update.html (December 22, 1998)

Kennedy Challenges Barr in House Members’ Lobby, Calling Him a Racist
by Jackie Frank (Reuters)
http://www.foxnews.com/news/packages/president/side1218k.sml (December 18, 1998)

Trent Lott Supported White Supremacist Group
by Steven Rendall (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting – FAIR)
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/lott.html (December 15, 1998)

Rep. Barr Rejects Segregation Supporters
by Thomas B. Edsall (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/barr121298.htm (December 12, 1998)

Barr Spoke to White Supremacy Group
by Thomas B. Edsall (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/barr121198.htm (December 11, 1998)

National Media Should Cover Racist Links of Prominent Elected Officials Like Rep. Bob Barr and Sen. Trent Lott
by Steven Rendall (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting – FAIR)
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/ccc.html (December 11, 1998)

Nappy Hair and other racial slurs
by Mona Charen (Jewish World Review)
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen120998.asp (December 9, 1998)

Judge rules in favor of white couple in adoption case
(Associated Press)
www.bostonherald.com/bostonherald/lonw/08adop.htm (December 8, 1998)

American Indian Twins Adopted
by Nancy Nussbaum (Associated Press)
http://www.newsday.com/ap/rnmpnt0e.htm (December 8, 1998)

Judge rules for foster parents in adoption battle
by Maria Miro Johnson (Providence Journal)
http://projo.com/report/pjb/stories/01537542.htm (December 8, 1998)

The truth will set you free or cost you a job
by Deborah Work (Sun-Sentinel)
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/columnists/detail/0,1556,work!8000000000041463,00.html (December 7, 1998)

Carver principal denounces letter, defends faculty
by Susan Snyder and Dale Mezzacappa (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/98/Dec/04/sj/JSKUL04.htm (December 4, 1998)

The “Blending” of America
(Coursewise Publishing)
http://www.courselinks.com/archives/diversepop/ec7.cfm (December 4, 1998)

Briefly Speech to Discuss Multiracial Cultures
(Los Angeles Daily News)
http://alexa.news-real.com/story/19981202/12/25/1268907_st.html(December 2, 1998)

How about interracial marriages?
(Bible Questions)
http://www.biblequestions.org/Archives/BQ120298.htm (December 2, 1998)

AEA poll finds support for erasing interracial marriage ban
(Associated Press)
http://flash.al.com/cgi-bin/al_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/BAMA_NEWS/j1034_AM_AL–InterracialMarria (November 30, 1998)

Three Perspectives on America’s Jefferson Fixation
by Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg and Annette Gordon-Reed (The Nation)
http://www.thenation.com/issue/981130/1130JEFF.HTM (November 30, 1998)

Blacks criticize survey findings of anti-Semitism
by Frank Eltman (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/98/Nov/24/national/SEMI24.htm (November 24, 1998)

Affirmative Action Foes Cheer Gains
by V. Dion Haynes (The Chicago Tribune)
http://chicagotribune.com/version1/article/0,1575,SAV-9811230189,00.html (November 23, 1998)

Conference to focus on hate crimes
by Diane Penner (Indianapolis Star/News)
http://www.starnews.com/news/citystate/98/nov/1116SN_hate.html (November 16, 1998)

Some Minorities Are More Minor Than Others
by Ron K. Unz (Wall Street Journal)
http://www.onenation.org/1198/111698b.html (November 16, 1998)

Interracial comic strip ‘Color Blind’ debuts today
by Barbara Hoover (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/features/9811/16/11160010.htm (November 16, 1998)

Jefferson knew the value of silence with the press
by Lewis Lord (U.S. News and World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/981116/16jeff.htm (November 16, 1998)

Editorial: The Shifting Meanings of ‘Black’ and ‘White’
(The New York Times)
http://www10.nytimes.com/learning/general/featured_articles/981116monday.html (November 15, 1998)

‘I consider myself me’: Kids come in many colors and they’d like a few words with us
by Paula Bock (Seattle Times)
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/lifestyles/html98/pmix_111598.html (November 15, 1998)

Multiracial births – by the numbers
(Seattle Times)
http://www.seattletimes.com/news/lifestyles/html98/psts at_111598.html (November 15, 1998)

Jeff’s Diary: Halfrican
(National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/981113.halfrican.html (November 13, 1998)

Churchgoing hypocrites grumble about interracial dating
by Ken Garfield (Knight Ridder Newspapers)
http://www.startext.net/news/doc/1047/1:RELIGION52/1:RELIGION52111298.html (November 12, 1998)

The Fantasy of Racial Difference
by Julia Houston (About.com: Star Trek Fans)
http://startrek.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa111198.htm (November 11, 1998)

Pryor says he will push for repeal of ban on interracial marriage
by Bill Poovey (Associated Press)
http://flash.al.com/cgi-bin/al_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/BAMA_NEWS/j9366_AM_AL–Pryor-Interracial (November 11, 1998)

Siegelman not taking sides on interracial marriage ban
by Jay Reeves (Associated Press)
http://flash.al.com/cgi-bin/al_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/BAMA_NEWS/j9245_AM_AL–InterracialMarria (November 11, 1998)

Blacks wondering about Siegelman hesitancy on marriage ban
by Jay Reeves (Associated Press)
http://flash.al.com/cgi-bin/al_nview.pl?/home1/wire/AP/Stream-Parsed/BAMA_NEWS/j9314_PM_AL–InterracialMarria (November 11, 1998)

MULTIRACIAL SELF-CLASSIFICATION AND CENSUS 2000: EFFECT ON VOTING RIGHTS LITIGATION AND ALLOCATION OF FEDERAL FUNDS
by Benjamin E. Griffith (IMLA’s 63rd Annual Conference)
http://www.vralitigator.com/public-files/files/Multiracial%20Self-Classification.html (November 10, 1998)

Jefferson’s love child wasn’t the only one
by Eugene Kane (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
http://www.jsonline.com/news/1110kane.asp (November 10, 1998)

Woman claims she is Washington descendant
(Beloit Daily News/Associated Press)
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/1198/1ill10.htm (November 10, 1998)

In the Hurt Game, Honesty Loses
by Edward Zwick (The New York Times)
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/zwic.htm (November 10, 1998)

Woman claims descent from George Washington’s union with slave
(The News-Times/Associated Press)
http://www.newstimes.com/archive98/nov1098/naa.htm (November 10, 1998)

Woman claims descent from George Washington’s union with slave
(The Shawnee News-Star/Associated Press)
http://www.news-star.com/stories/111098/new_descendant.shtml (November 10, 1998)

Holding out for an icon
by Lewis Lord (U.S. News and World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/981109/9hist.htm (November 9, 1998)

Thomas Jefferson Fathered Some Surprising Descendents
by Barbra Murray & Brian Duffy (U.S. News and World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/981109/9tom.htm (November 9, 1998)

When a Saint Becomes a Sinner
by Joseph J. Ellis (U.S. News and World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/981109/9elli.htm (November 9, 1998)

1901 Ban On Interracial Marriages Still On Alabama Law Books
(Newswire)
http://afgen.com/interracial_marriage.html (November 8, 1998)

Confounding Fathers
by Hugh Downs (ABC News)
http://www.abcnews.com/onair/abcnews/general/insite981106_downs.html (November 6, 1998)

South Carolina removes ban on interracial marriage
(AllPolitics)
http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/11/03/election/ballots/interracial.marriage/index.html (November 3, 1998)

“The Siege”: Can it happen here?
by Frank H. Wu (The Progressive)
http://www.progressive.org/mpwu1198.htm (November 1998)

The Schooling of Multiracial Students
by Wendy Schwartz (ERIC: Clearinghouse on Urban Education Digest)
http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/digests/dig138.html (November 1998)

The Identity Development of Multiracial Youth
by Wendy Schwartz (ERIC: Clearinghouse on Urban Education Digest)
http://eric-web.tc.columbia.edu/digests/dig137.html (November 1998)

Special Issue on Race
(The American Enterprise)
http://www.theamericanenterprise.org/taend98.htm (November/December 1998)

Time to Take Stock
by Raina Carpio Bell (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/raina3.html (November/December 1998)

Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of “Race,” Nation and Gender
by Jayne Ifekwunigwe (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/jayne.html (November/December 1998)

Genetics, Culture and Buddhism
Part II of “A Buddhist Repudiation of the One-drop Rule”
by Liam Martin (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/liam2.html (November/December 1998)

Identity and Politics
by Liam Martin (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/liam3.html (November/December 1998)

The Critical Number
by William Javier Nelson (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/javier2.html (November/December 1998)

When Are Irish-Americans Not Good Enough to Be Irish-American?
by A.D. Powell (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/powell8.html (November/December 1998)

Thomas Jefferson: “Father of Our Country”
by David Schwalbe (About.com)
http://americanhistory.about.com/education/americanhistory/library/weekly/aa103198.htm?once=true& (October 31, 1998)

New Families Redraw Racial Boundaries
by Tamar Lewin (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/102798adoption.html (October 23, 1998)

Racist killer gets life for 2 slayings
by John Nolan (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/nation/9810/23/10230131.htm (October 23, 1998)

Biracial group encourages students to share experiences
by Karen Trimbath (Intercom Online)
http://www.psu.edu/ur/archives/intercom_1998/Oct15/biracial.html (October 15, 1998)

A ridiculous controversy
by Tony Norman (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
http://www.post-gazette.com/columnists/1998/1006tony1.asp (October 6, 1998)

We’ve Moved Forward, But We Haven’t Overcome
by Richard Morin (The Washington Post)
http://cgi.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/wat/archive/wat100598.htm (October 5, 1998)

Why Tiger Woods has a message for Compliance
by Jo Ann S. Barefoot (ABA Banking Online Journal)
http://www.banking.com/aba/compliance_1098.asp (October 1998)

We’re All The Same
by Lee Dye (ABC News)
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DyeHard/dye72.html (September 16, 1998)

Carleton police probe cross burning
by Larry Davis (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/metro/9809/02/09020142.htm (September 2, 1998)

Death in the Pacific
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor20.html (September/October 1998)

New Revelation: Is There Really A Connection
Between the Black and Gay Struggle for Civil Rights?
by Raina Carpio Bell (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/raina2.html (September/October 1998)

“Stigmata”
by Susanne M.J. Heine (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/sheine2.html (September/October 1998)

“A Buddhist repudiation of the one-drop rule”
by Liam Martin (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/liam.html (September/October 1998)

Evans’ dad loses home to firebomb
(The Daily Journal)
http://www.daily-journal.com/web_data/editorial/090198hd.html (September 1, 1998)

The Brown bomber strikes Justice Thomas
by Larry Elder (Jewish World Review)
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/elder082798.html (August 27, 1998)

The Internet Anti-Fascist, Vol. 2, Number 46 (#154)
by Paul Kneisel (The Internet Anti-Fascist)
https://www.multiracial.com/news/iaf18Aug98.html (August 18, 1998)

Man with a Cross: Hawkeye Was a “Half-Breed”
by Barbara Mann (James Fenimore Cooper Society)
http://external.oneonta.edu/cooper/articles/ala/1998ala-mann.html (August 1998)

Travels Into America’s Future
by Robert D. Kaplan (The Atlantic Monthly)
http://www.theatlantic.com/trans.atl/issues/98aug/amfuture.htm (August 1998)

Good Times Are Bad for Interest Groups
by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/library/review/072698advocacy-groups-review.html (July 26, 1998)

Mulatto Millenium
by Danzy Senna (Salon)
http://www.salonmagazine.com/mwt/feature/1998/07/24feature.html (July 24, 1998)

Celebrating Interracial Relationships
by Nicole Mikel (Independent Florida Alligator)
http://www.studentadvantage.com/article_story/1,1075,c3-i62-t277-a11207,00.html (July 16, 1998)

Colorblind or Color Conscious?
by Ben Boychuk (The Claremont Institute)
http://www.claremont.org/publications/boychuk.cfm (July 13, 1998)

The complexity of racism
by Robert Paul Reyes (The Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
http://search.newschoice.com/angtr/opinion/98-07-09_opreye.asp (July 9, 1998)

Bringing home love
by Greg Nikkel (Weyburn Review)
http://www.weyburn-review.sk.ca/News/9827/adopt.html (July 8, 1998)

Blending Into The British Background
by John Burgess (The Washington Post)
http://knowtheweb.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diversity/globalmosaic3a.htm (July 7, 1998)

Immigration Challenges Dutch Society
by Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post)
http://knowtheweb.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diversity/globalmosaic1a.htm (July 5, 1998)

Canada: A Mosaic, Not a Melting Pot
by Howard Schneider (The Washington Post)
http://knowtheweb.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/diversity/toronto.htm (July 5, 1998)

The Color of Her Childhood
by Annette Gordon-Reed (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-07/05/026l-070598-idx.html (July 5, 1998)

Is the NAACP Proud of Kweisi Mfume?
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor19.html (July/August 1998)

Multiracial? Confused? Feeling Ripped-Off and Mad as Hell? or How Governments Everywhere Use Our Money to Suspend Disbelief
by Susanne Heine (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/s_heine.html (July/August 1998)

Sexual Objectification and Perceptions of the “Mixed Race”
in western culture, the media, and within ourselves
by Sabu (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.1love.com/mixed/objects.html (July/August 1998)

Don’t You Dare List Us As Others: Multi-Racial Americans’ Quest For Identity
by Wendy Ruky (Columbia University School of Journalism)
http://radio.jrn.columbia.edu/masters98/ruky/ruky-index.html (June 1998)

Race, History Are a Messy Mix
by Donna Britt (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-06/26/107l-062698-idx.html (June 26, 1998)

Clinton Census Nominee Favors Politically Controversial Method
by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/new/washpol/census-appoint.html (June 24, 1998)

Ripped-from-womb killer given life
(Beloit Daily News/Associated Press)
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/698/ripp23.htm (June 23, 1998)

Race Board Sees Need for More Work
(New York Times/Associated Press)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/w/AP-Clinton-Race.html (June 18, 1998)

The Rev Who Cried ‘Racist’
by Michael Meyers (New York Post)
http://www.nypostonline.com/052698/commentary/1974.htm (May 26, 1998)

Can blacks succeed without a Harvard degree?
by George Cantor (The Detroit News)
http://www.detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9805/23/cantor/cantor.htm (May 23, 1998)

Ethnically Speaking: Please do not label any race of people based on limited, surface experiences
by Larry G. Meeks (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/detroit/9805/20/05200042.htm (May 20, 1998)

Metis reject bill revoking Riel’s conviction
(CBC)
http://www.newsworld.cbc.ca/archive/html/1998/05/20/metis980520a.html (May 20, 1998)

Life as an Alien
by Meri Nana-Ama Danquah (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-05/17/014l-051798-idx.html (May 17, 1998)

Lost in the Middle
by Malcolm Gladwell (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-05/17/016l-051798-idx.html (May 17, 1998)

Speaking of Race (Interview with Patricia Williams)
(Atlantic Monthly)
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/bookauth/ba980514.htm (May 14, 1998)

Ethnically Speaking: Dear Readers: It may be hard to believe, but I don’t make up these letters
by Larry G. Meeks (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/detroit/9805/13/05130031.htm (May 13, 1998)

Interracial dating opens some eyes
by Steve Estrada (The Orion)
http://orion.csuchico.edu/Pages/vol40issues15/d.19.html (May 13, 1998)

Ethnically Speaking: Despite income, parents can raise educated children with goals, values
by Larry G. Meeks (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/detroit/9805/06/05060072.htm (May 6, 1998)

‘Game’ kiss could cost Washington fans
(The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/nation/9805/01/05010136.htm (May 1, 1998)

Census 2000: Sampling, Funding, and the “Multiracial” Category
(United Auto Workers)
http://www.uaw.org/publications/CAPconf/1998/cap1998_05b.html (May 1998)

Buying false racial peace
by Jim Sleeper (Salon Magazine)
http://www.salonmagazine.com/feature/1998/05/cov_05feature.html (May 1998)

Black and White Shows
by Omari Ramirez (M.C.S. Post)
http://www.mcs.pvt.k12.ny.us/y9798gr5/tv.html (May/June 1998)

“White” Skin Privilege and “Black” Nationalism
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor18.html (May/June 1998)

“Multiracial, Ambidextrous, Whatever…”
by Raina Carpio Bell (“007”) (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/raina.html (May/June 1998)

White Folks — A True Story
by A.D. Powell (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/powell6.html (May/June 1998)

Towards the Unification of a “New Mixed Majority”
by Sabu (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.1love.com/mixed/majority.html (May/June 1998)

Activist/author looks to the future
by Mary Elizabeth Cronin (The Seattle Times)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/lifestyles/html98/altduke_042398.html (April 23, 1998)

‘One-Drop Rule’ Still Haunts Us: Godby vs. Board of Education
by Major Cox (Montgomery Advertiser)
http://www.majorcox.com/columns/onedrop.htm (April 22, 1998)

Judge agrees with mom and girl that race shouldn’t break their family apart
by Jack Kresnak (Detroit Free Press)
http://www.freepress.com/news/locoak/qadopt17.htm (April 17, 1998)

Bill passes, sets up vote on interracial marriage
by Zane Wilson (The Sun News)
http://www.holysmoke.org/skeptic-tank/mar.htm (April 16, 1998)

Ethnically Speaking: Reader’s opposition to interracial dating shows his refusal to reject stereotypes
by Larry G. Meeks (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/detroit/9804/08/04080051.htm (April 8, 1998)

Shadle Park junior honored with Chase Award
by Kevin Blocker (The Spokesman-Review)
http://www.spokane.net/news-story.asp?date=040298&ID=s370213 (April 2, 1998)

Interracial Marriages and the Effects on Children
by Nacy John Alouise (The University of Dayton School of Law)
http://www.udayton.edu/~race/04needs/s98alouis.htm (Spring 1998)

INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIPS
by Cynthia Burns (Kids Magazine)
http://family.disney.com/Categories/Activities/Features/family_1998_04/kids/kids48race/ (April 1998)

Press Release: Study of intermarriage patterns shows race still a major factor
(University of Illinois)
https://www.multiracial.com/news/pr9804uofi.html (April 1998)

Managing Multiple-Race Data
by William O’Hare (American Demographics)
http://www.marketingtools.com/publications/ad/98_ad/9804_ad/ad980430.htm (April 1998)

It’s All in the Details
by Christy Fisher (American Demographics)
http://www.marketingtools.com/publications/ad/98_ad/9804_ad/ad980431.htm (April 1998)

Colorblind? Talking about race under Internet cover
by Benjamin Davis(MSNBC)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/154041.asp (April 1998)

Wilson advocates new progessive stategy to aid society ills
by Danielle Service (Emory Report)
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_REPORT/erarchive/1998/March/ermarch.16/3_16_98Wilson.html (March 16, 1998)

Press Release: Rally to Protest Tax Money Going to Bob Jones University
(Greenville County Democratic Party)
https://www.multiracial.com/news/pr980310.html (March 10, 1998)

Dance club draws crowd, police concern
by Carrie Sturrock (Concord Monitor)
http://www.concordmonitor.com/stories/features/photostory/xmusichall/musichall0308.shtml (March 8, 1998)

‘Nothing’s Changed?’
by William Raspberry (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1998-03/02/0301-030298-idx.html (March 2, 1998)

Charles Drew, Jean Toomer, Julian Bond and “Choices”
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor17.html (March/April 1998)

Looking Back to Find a Future
by Maria K. B. Kolby (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/maria.html (March/April 1998)

“Amistad”, Vectors, Comfort and Conciliation
by William Javier Nelson (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/javier.html (March/April 1998)

What We’re Up Against
by Nathan Douglas (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/nathan.html (March/April 1998)

“Rethinking Mixed Race Conference”
by Sabu (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.1love.com/nmc/index.html (March/April 1998)

Bulletin Insert – Interracial Marriage
by Hoyt W. Allen, Jr. (KYOWVA Evangelistic Association)
http://www.zoomnet.net/~kyowva/bbacks/interacial.htm (March 1998)

One Nation, Indivisible: Is It History?
by William Booth (The Washington Post)
http://knowtheweb.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.htm (February 22, 1998)

The Color Brown
by Richard Rodriguez (NewsHour-PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/february98/rodriguez_2-18.html (February 18, 1998)

Not Just Black and White
by Frank Wu (Asian Week)
http://www.asianweek.com/020598/coverstory.html (February 4-11, 1998)

Love Should Be Color Blind
by Randall Kennedy (Intellectual Capital)
http://www.intellectualcapital.com/issues/98/0205/icopinions4.asp (February 5, 1998)

Letters: Race is not a primary factor in a child’s adoption
(The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9802/04/spletters/spletters.htm (February 4, 1998)

Crossing Ethnic Lines
by Akiko Fujita (Highlander News)
http://www.highlander.ucr.edu/old/iss15/news.html (February 3, 1998)

The Limits of Black, Brown Solidarity
by Peter Skerry (CMMR/The Los Angeles Times)
http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~cmmr/L.A.Times_Feb1.html (February 1, 1998)

The Usual Suspects: BJU Protest Lesson in Futility
http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Venue/5928/libs.html (February 1988)

“What are you?” Multiracial Families in America
by Patricia Sullivan (Our Children)
http://www.pta.org/pubs/edumulti.htm (February 1998)

Multiracial students can feel pride, confusion about identity
by Spring Blachly and Andrew Fiore (Falcon’s Cry)
http://www.jordan.durham.k12.nc.us/fc/feb1998/multiracial.html (February 1998)

The Salon Interview – Stanley Crouch (White/Black Men/Women Get Over It — We’re All American)
by Jonathan Broder (Salon Magazine)
http://www.salonmagazine.com/books/int/1998/02/cov_is_25int.html (February 1998)

Back to Equality
by Ward Connerly (IMPRIMIS)
http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/1998/February/FebruaryPage1.html (February 1998)

Interracial Dating Raises Mixed Feelings
by Alanna Guardino (Wingspan)
http://www.wingspan.org/feb98/dating.html (February 1998)

Is There Life After Race?
by Kanchan Limaye (Reason Magazine)
http://www.reasonmag.com/9802/bk.limaye.html (February 1998)

State agent wins suit based on harassment
by John M.R. Bull (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh%5Fsouth/19980122brace1.asp (January 23, 1998)

End Drawing Near for Race Categories
by Major Cox (Montgomery Advertiser)
http://www.majorcox.com/columns/racecat9.htm (January 22, 1998)

Couple’s lawsuit stirs controversy over merits of mixed-race adoption
by David Josar (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/metro/9801/20/01200130.htm (January 20, 1998)

U-M group gives voice to those who are caught between racial categories
by Oralander Brand-Williams (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/nation/9801/05/01050179.htm (January 5, 1998)

Census change stirs mixed-race debate
by Oralandar Brand-Williams (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/nation/9801/05/01050120.htm (January 5, 1998)

U-M group gives voice to those who are caught between racial categories
by Oralander Brand-Williams (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1998/nation/9801/05/01050179.htm (January 5, 1998)

New Census guidelines probably will add to all the confusion
by Clarence Page (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/98/Jan/05/opinion/PAGE05.htm (January 5, 1998)

Census 2000 Protest: Check American Indian!
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/protest.html (January/February 1998)

This is not Walter White’s NAACP
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor16.html (January/February 1998)

Unity in Diversity
(The San Jose Mercury/Digital High)
http://www.sjmercury.com/digitalhigh/features/unity/ (1998)


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