Click on the links below to read articles, stories and interviews published and broadcast by the nation’s media.
Race In Atlanta
(The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/Access Atlanta)
http://www.accessatlanta.com/local/news/current/race/ (1997)
‘Whiteness studies’ an attempt at healing
by John Yemma (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/rethinking_integration (December 21, 1997)
Race relations panel confronts its critics
by Robert Greene (The Associated Press)
http://www.bergen.com/news/billrace9712189.htm (December 18, 1997)
Letters: U-M affirming bias or diversity?
(The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9712/14/letter/letter.htm (December 14, 1997)
In Defense of Love Beyond Race
by Kevin Merida (The Washington Post)
http://cgi.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/admin/stories/cohen121497.htm (December 14, 1997)
America doesn’t need racial labels
by Cal Thomas (The Holland Sentinel)
http://www.thehollandsentinel.net/stories/120997/opn_racial.html (December 9, 1997)
President’s racial conversation not needed
by Cal Thomas (The Naples Daily News)
http://www.naplesnews.com/today/editorial/d173203a.htm (December 8, 1997)
Pebbles in the pond: Talking about race
by David B. Cooper (The Bergen Record)
http://www.bergen.com/morenews/clinton5119971207.htm (December 7, 1997)
Students to test participants’ own inclination to stereotype
by Bob Meadows (The Charlotte Observor)
http://www.charlotte.com/special/race1/race1206d.htm (December 6, 1997)
What’s next? Conferees to help define follow-up
by Bob Meadows (The Charlotte Observor)
http://www.charlotte.com/special/race1/race1206b.htm (December 6, 1997)
Census Is Likely To Undercount Latinos
by Carlos Munoz, Jr. (StLouis Post-Dispatch/Progressive Media Project)
http://web3.stlnet.com/archives/pdarc97.nsf/ce5cb66cf17fd8b686256363005212c4/1fef9d52d24ed5038625655d006d5f8e?OpenDocument (November 26, 1997)
Will rejection of labels create new American identity?
by Stephen Magagnini (The Charlotte News & Observer)
http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1997/11/23/qq00.html (November 23, 1997)
Why does it matter?
by Joyce Clark Hicks (The Charlotte News & Observer)
http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1997/11/23/qq00_side1.html (November 23, 1997)
Claiming her full heritage
by Stephen Magagnini (The Charlotte News & Observer)
http://www.news-observer.com/daily/1997/11/23/qq00_side2.html (November 23, 1997)
Discussions About Race Occurring
by Major Cox (Montgomery Advertiser)
http://www.majorcox.com/columns/whitene2.htm (November 19, 1997)
If race shouldn’t count, then why count it?
by Jeff Jacoby (The Boston Globe)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/bos_glob.html (November 18, 1997)
Time to Choose the Right Box
by Jill Olumide (People in Harmony)
http://www.pih.org.uk/articles/choose.html (November 17, 1997)
BOMBS Responds To Multiracial Misinterpretation
(The Herald)
http://www.theherald.org/issues/111797/carroll.f.html (November 17, 1997)
Multiethnic message is clear: Viva la difference
by Karen Grigsby Bates (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/outlook/9711/25/11160032.htm (November 16, 1997)
INTEGRATION OF RACES
(NewsHour-PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/november97/patterson_11-13.html (November 13, 1997)
Racial categories shouldn’t be issue
(The Jacksonville Daily News)
http://www.jacksonvilledailynews.com/stories/111097/z6629.html (November 10, 1997)
Census revisions slight Latino and multiracial Americans
by Carlos Munoz, Jr. (The Progressive)
http://www.progressive.org/mpmunoznov.htm (November 6, 1997)
Racial politics and the next census
(The Tampa Tribune)
http://www.tampatrib.com/news/edit101e.htm (November 6, 1997)
Them and Us
(The Richmond Times-Dispatch)
http://www.gateway-va.com/pages/editpage/1105ed2.htm (November 5, 1997)
Multi-ethnic Census option confounds the stereotypes
(The Standard-Times)
http://www.s-t.com/daily/11-97/11-04-97/b04op060.htm (November 4, 1997)
Metro Detroit cool to mixed-race pairs, magazine says
by Oralander Brand-Williams (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9711/04/11040082.htm (November 4, 1997)
Teen-age dating shows racial barriers falling
by Karen S. Peterson (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9711/03/11030094.htm (November 3, 1997)
Are you multiracial? Uncle Sam wants to know
by Paula Fuchsberg (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/97/Nov/02/national/RCEN02.htm (November 2, 1997)
All that apply: Rules on race broaden ways to describe ourselves
(The Sacramento Bee)
http://www.sacbee.com/news/beetoday/newsroom/edit/110297/edit02.html (November 2, 1997)
Leftist Socialism or Multiracial Libertarianism:
Our Community’s Two Choices?
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor13.html (November/December 1997)
Jon Michael Spencer and those of us who Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor14.html (November/December 1997)
Lifestyles: A Man’s Gift To His Creator
by SSgt Eric C. Tausch (Marines Magazine)
http://www.hqmc.usmc.mil/marines.nsf/9eb11b0ca47d01f7852562d00078319f/95bee47e5cbde893852565410073e309?OpenDocument (November 1997)
Biracial
by Tina Yushan Gourd (CelebrAsian Magazine)
http://www.amherst.edu/~lygourd/Biracial.html (November 1997)
Sex, Miscegenation, and the Intermarriage Debate
by Mik Moore (The Jewish Student Press Service)
http://www.jsps.com/stories/miscegination.shtml (November 1997)
What’s In A Name
by Karen Dugger (Bucknell World)
http://www.bucknell.edu/departments/pr/BucknellWorld/1997-11/end.html (November 1997)
Census Terms Debated
by Britta Schilling (The Brown Daily Herald)
http://www.netspace.org/herald/issues/103197/census.f.html (October 31, 1997)
Census panel wise to dump ‘multiracial’
by Miguel Perez (The Bergen Record)
http://www.bergen.com/perez/perez21031971.htm (October 31, 1997)
U.S. Forms Will Offer Choice On Race Data
by Penni Roberts (The Philadelphia Tribune)
http://www.phila-tribune.com/103197-12-P1.htm (October 31, 1997)
Census 2000 Will Allow Multiple Race Categories – Check Any That Apply
by Rebecca Leung (ABC News)
http://www.abcnews.com/sections/us/2000census/ (October 31, 1997)
Washington Rejects Multiracial Category in Census
by Robert Westervelt Jr. (The Daily Campus)
http://www.uwire.com/uwire/97/10/news10319708.chtml (October 31, 1997)
No one answer necessary for census race question
by Annie Nakao (The San Francisco Examiner)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/examiner/article.cgi?year=1997&month=10&day=30&article=NEWS15283.dtl (October 30, 1997)
Census to allow mixed-race reports
by Faye Fiore (Virtually Northwest/Los Angeles Times)
http://www.virtuallynorthwest.com/stories/1997/Oct/30/S299697.asp (October 30, 1997)
Census Won’t Have ‘Multiracial’ Box, But You Can Check More Than 1 Race
by Associated Press (The Salt Lake Tribune)
http://www.sltrib.com/97/oct/103097/nation_w/4540.htm (October 30, 1997)
Census to have no multiracial category
(The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9710/30/10300156.htm (October 30, 1997)
Census adds new categories for people of mixed races
(The Detroit Free Press)
http://www.freep.com/news/nw/qcen30.htm (October 30, 1997)
Multiple Race Choices to Be Allowed on 2000 Census
by Faye Fiore (The Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/sbin/my_iarecord.pl?NS-doc-path=/httpd/docs/HOME/NEWS/POLITICS/t000097722.html&NS-doc-offset=2&NS-collection=DailyNews&NS-search-set=/var/tmp/345a1/aaaa0055P5a1ef7& (October 30, 1997)
Census Expands Options for Multiracial Families
by Barbara Vobejda (The Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1997-10/30/194l-103097-idx.html (October 30, 1997)
New Categories on Race and Ethnic Makeup Adopted by Administration
by Steven A. Holmes (The New York Times)
http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+site+18160+0++%28multiracial%29%20OR%20%28%29%20OR%20%28%29 (October 30, 1997)
‘Multiracial’ not an option in next census
(The Associated Press)
http://167.8.29.8/plweb-cgi/idoc.pl?1312+unix+_free_user_+cgi.usatoday.com..80+USATODAY_ONLINE+USATODAY_ONLINE+NEWS+NEWS++multiracial (October 29, 1997)
Interracial Dating Forum Highlights Brown Multiracial Heritage Week
by Megan Tracy (Brown Daily Herald)
http://167.8.29.8/plweb-cgi/idoc.pl?1873+unix+_free_user_+cgi.usatoday.com..80+USATODAY_ONLINE+USATODAY_ONLINE+NEWS+NEWS++multiracial (October 28, 1997)
Cleave to the Black
(AfricanHistory.com)
http://www.africanhistory.com/bncleave.htm (October 28, 1997)
Convocation Highlights Brown Multiracial Heritage Week
by Rebecca Berne (Brown Daily Herald)
http://167.8.29.8/plweb-cgi/idoc.pl?1793+unix+_free_user_+cgi.usatoday.com..80+USATODAY_ONLINE+USATODAY_ONLINE+NEWS+NEWS++multiracial (October 27, 1997)
Folk legend Ian touring again 30 years after first hit
by Timothy Flynn (Lubbock Avalanche-Journal)
http://lubbockonline.com/news/102697/uk5518.htm (October 25, 1997)
Letters: Count the Heads
(The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9710/24/letters/letters.htm (October 24, 1997)
Parents of biracial children bond in support group
by Gary M. Pomerantz (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
http://www.accessatlanta.com/local/news/current/race/race1023.html (October 23, 1997)
Decision Near on Racial Categories
(Beloit Daily News/Associated Press)
http://www.beloitdailynews.com/1097/race21.htm (October 21, 1997)
Melungeon group tied to Africans, American Indians
by Judy Jones (Herald-Leader)
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/101997/orgins.html (October 19, 1997)
Melungeon group tied to Africans, American Indians
by Judy Jones (Herald-Leader)
http://www.clinch.edu/appalachia/melungeon/lexher.htm (October 19, 1997)
Stop Asking About Race in Census
by Major Cox (Montgomery Advertiser)
http://www.majorcox.com/columns/will1.htm (October 15, 1997)
Archer challenger Vaughn passionate about race issue
by Kenneth Cole (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9710/15/10150091.htm (October 15, 1997)
Multiracial Americans Deserve Better Than ‘Other’
by Gregory Rodriquez (The Christian Science Monitor)
http://csmonitor.com/durable/1997/10/14/opin/opin.1.html (October 14, 1997)
Multiracial Americans seek acceptance as numbers grow
by Stephen Magagnini (Sacramento Bee)
http://www.sacbee.com/news/beetoday/newsroom/local/101297/local02.html (October 12, 1997)
Virginia school district cited as a model of racial tolerance
by Anne Gearan (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9710/07/10070054.htm (October 7, 1997)
CAFÉ AU LAIT AMERICA BY YEAR 2020: FOUNDATION LAUNCHES GRANTS TO CHILDREN OF MIXED PARENTAGE
by Tasha Goldberg (The Shredder)
http://theshredder.com/archive/racemix.html (October 7, 1997)
Melding In America
by George F. Will (The Washington Post)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/g_will.html (October 5, 1997)
Black Men Can’t Kiss
by Ken Neville (E! Online)
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,1876,00.html (October 4, 1997)
America’s Multiracial Children
by Kimberly A. Crafton (JumpStart Michigan)
http://www.jumpstartmich.com/multi.html (October 1997)
Profiling of Fliers Raises Racial Issue
(American Civil Liberties Union)
http://archive.aclu.org/news/w092697d.html (September 26, 1997)
Americans brainstorm to help create national race labels
(Nando Times)
http://www.footballserver.com/newsroom/ntn/nation/092897/nation21_16311_body.html (September 20, 1997)
Race Labeling Loses Meaning Multiracial Era
by Roosevelt Wilson (The Tallahassee Democrat)
http://www.tdo.com/opinion/Wilson/0920wilson.htm (September 20, 1997)
Student Sues Over Claims of Racial Harassments
(Black News Today/Associated Press)
http://www.blackvoices.com/news/97/09/17/story02.html (September 17, 1997)
America’s changing face: South Central Los Angeles exemplifies the melting pot of the 1990’s
by John Yemma (The Boston Globe)
http://www.boston.com/globe/nation/packages/rethinking_integration/day4print.htm (September 17, 1997)
Multiracial families rank Montclair as top spot
by Kelly Heyboer (The Star-Ledger)
http://www.njo.com/njcommunities/ledger/essex/stories/5683ed.htm (September 11, 1997)
My Ethiopian Vacation
by Sandra Tsing Loh (Mother Jones)
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/SO97/loh.html (September/October 1997)
Changing Colors
(Mother Jones)
http://www.mojones.com/mother_jones/SO97/change.html (September/October 1997)
On the Merits of Racial Identity
by Tomas Sandoval (Bad Subjects)
http://english-server.hss.cmu.edu/bs/33/sandoval.html (September 1997)
Identity Matters: The Meaning of Mulatto
by Erin Bannister (Radcliffe Quarterly)
http://www.radcliffe.edu/quarterly/199703/page33a.html (Fall/Winter 1997)
Open letter to Tiger Woods: Be true to your diverse heritage
by Inez Allison Lewis (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9708/07/3edit/3edit.htm (August 7, 1997)
School labels difficult for multiracial children
by Mary Maushard (Baltimore Sun)
http://www.sunspot.net/news/19970805/maryland/data/LOC_AAA_01B_870775281_154.shtml (August 5, 1997)
Interracial adoption: One couple’s story – Part Two
by Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier (Salon)
http://www.salon.com/aug97/mothers/adoption970805.html (August 5, 1997)
Interracial adoption: One couple’s story – Part One
by Carol Lloyd and Hank Pellissier (Salon)
http://www.salon.com/aug97/mothers/adoption970804.html (August 4, 1997)
Can Intermarriage Make You Smarter and Richer?
(VitalSTATS)
http://www.stats.org/newsletters/9708/interrace2.htm (August 1997)
Black, White, or Other?
by Ms. Jones (AFRONET)
http://www.afronet.com/WB/073097-1.html (July 30, 1997)
PLAYING THE RACE CARD: Should we have a “multi-racial” category on the census?
(NewsHour Online Forum)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/july97/census_7-28.html (July 29, 1997)
CENSUS AND RACE: Compromise is best on multiracial classification
(The Detroit Free Press)
http://www.freep.com/voices/editorial/0724census.htm (July 24, 1997)
American Apartheid
by David Horowitz (Salon Magazine)
http://www.salonmagazine.com/july97/columnists/horowitz2970718.html (July 18, 1997)
Census should adopt multiracial category
(Amarillo Globe-News)
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/071697/census.html (July 16, 1997)
Black or white? Egyptian immigrant fights for black classification
by Joan MacFarlane (CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/US/9707/16/racial.suit/index.html (July 16, 1997)
Multiracial Census Category
(NewsHour-PBS)
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/july-dec97/census_7-16.html (July 16, 1997)
Census Bureau fights to use controversial sampling count, which could ease process
by Lisa Zagaroli (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9707/15/07150103.htm (July 15, 1997)
Mfume predicts he will succeed in raising dues for NAACP
by James Bock (The Baltimore Sun)
http://www.sunspot.net/sunspot/news/19970714/national_world/data/TEL_03A_868874448_38.shtml (July 14, 1997)
Counting a `new’ type of American
by Jerelyn Eddings (U.S. News and World Report)
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/970714/14CENS.HTM (July 14, 1997)
Is Love Colorblind
by Steve Sailer (National Review)
http://www.nationalreview.com/nationalreview/14july97/feature.html (July 14, 1997)
Graphs for “Is Love Colorblind”
by Steve Sailer (National Review)
http://members.aol.com/steveslr/ilcgrph5.htm (July 14, 1997)
Defining Americans
(The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9707/13/2edit/2edit.htm (July 13, 1997)
Tones of discord greet race forum
by Scott Shepard (The Baltimore Sun)
http://www.sunspot.net/sunspot/news/19970713/national_world/data/TEL_01A_868701653_30.shtml (July 13, 1997)
A crossroads now, a crossroads then
by Shirl Kasper (The Kansas City Star)
http://www.kcstar.com/millennium/stories/main.html (July 11, 1997)
It’s time to break out of our old racial boxes
(The Seattle Times)
http://www.seattletimes.com/extra/browse/html97/raceed_071197.html (July 11, 1997)
Alleged racist inducted as superintendant
(The Associated Press)
http://www.generation-y.com/stories/071197/racist.html (July 10, 1997)
Multiple Legacies Just Don’t Fit Into Narrow Categories
by Maggie Gallagher (Universal Press Syndicate)
http://www.uexpress.com/ups/opinion/column/mg/archive/mg970709.html (July 9, 1997)
More than 1 answer for race on census form is proposed
by Carl M. Cannon (The Baltimore Sun)
http://www.sunspot.net/sunspot/news/19970709/national_world/data/TEL_03A_868442450_114.shtml (July 9, 1997)
Census would let people ‘say who they are’
by Randolph E. Schmid (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9707/09/07090140.htm (July 9, 1997)
Panel rejects multiracial choice for Census
by Randolph E. Schmid (Associated Press)
http://www.jrnl.com/news/97/Jul/jrn155090797.html (July 9, 1997)
All Things Considered: Multiracial Findings
by Sunni Khalid (National Public Radio)
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=38850 (July 8, 1997)
Press Release: Multiracial Group Views Change To Census As a Victory
(Hapa Issues Forum )
https://www.multiracial.com/news/pr970708.html(July 8, 1997)
What is an American?
by Ron Grossman (The Chicago Tribune)
http://www.chicago.tribune.com/fun/blended/blended.htm (July 6, 1997)
Critics say the school wants to avoid lawsuites that could charge discrimination in admission standards
by Rusty Hoover (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9707/04/07040049.htm (July 4, 1997)
A Star is Reborn: The stunning story of how Star Parker left her life of drugs, abortions, and welfare abuse to become a leading advocate for the family.
by Linda Piepenbrink (Today’s Christian Woman)
http://www.christianitytoday.com/tcw/7w4/7w4022.html (July/August 1997)
The Political Color Continuum: The multiracial community must not fall into unconscious lockstep with the “black” community.
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor12.html (July/August 1997)
OMB’s Preliminary Recommendation & an IV Commentary
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/omb_iv.html (July 1997)
Regarding Tiger Woods’ Statement He’s “Caublinasian.”
by Salli Richardson (Ebony)
http://www.salli-richardson.com/Salli_on_Tiger_Woods.htm (July 1997)
Washington Diarist
by Romesh Ratnesar (The New Republic)
http://www.enews.com/magazines/tnr/textonly/063097/txtdiarist063097.html (June 30, 1997)
U.S. Considers Adding Statistics On ‘Multiracial’
by Lynn Schnaiberg (Education Week)
http://www.edweek.org/htbin/fastweb?getdoc+view4+ew1997+1192+0+wAAA+%26%28multiracial%29%26AND%26%28multiracial%29%3AKEYWORDS%26OR%26%28multiracial%29 (June 25, 1997)
Race In America: Fairness or Folly?
by Eric Pooley (TIME)
http://cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/06/16/time/affirmative.html (June 23, 1997)
Multiracial category could be on census
by Katherine Gorell (The State News)
http://www.statenews.com/editionssummer97/061697/nw_census.html (June 17, 1997)
Egyptian fighting to alter racial designation
by Wayne Smith (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9706/16/06160093.htm (June 16, 1997)
Categoric Denials
by Amy Laughinghouse (Creative Loafing Network: Topside)
http://www.cln.com/topside/newsstand/archives/061497/index.htm (June 14, 1997)
Clinton has work cut out on race relations
by Clarence Page (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/editorial/97/06/12/page.html (June 12, 1997)
Racial problems persist, poll finds
by Larry Bivins (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9706/11/06110175.htm (June 11, 1997)
Museum retraces slaves’ steps to freedom
by Kelly L. Anderson (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9706/10/06100029.htm (June 10, 1997)
“Bureaucrats Hobble Quest of Egyptian For Job by Classifying him “Caucasian”
by Mary Mostert, Editor (Michael Reagan MONTHLY MONITOR)
http://www.reagan.com/mfcon/mike/HotTopics/document-6.10.1997.7.html (June 10, 1997)
Editorial – Multiracial Checkoff Is a Vote for Accuracy
(San Francisco Chronicle)
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/chronicle/article.cgi?file=ED61350.DTL&directory=/chronicle/archive/1997/06/08 (June 8, 1997)
Why are public schools more segregated, but marriages more integrated?
(The Libertarian Party)
https://www.multiracial.com/news/pr970605.html (June 5, 1997)
Alabama town fears new school superintendent’s alleged bigotry
by Russ Jamieson (CNN)
http://cnn.com/US/9707/02/humphries.return/index.html (June 2, 1997)
Rainbow Saboteurs
by Alicia Banks (Eloquent Fury)
http://www.geocities.com/ambwww/RACIAL-LABELS-1.htm (June 2, 1997)
The Key to Race: Depoliticize It
by Sheldon Richman (The Future of Freedom Foundation)
http://www.fff.org/editorial/ed0697a.htm (June 1997)
All Things Considered: Multiracials
by Sunni Khalid (National Public Radio)
http://search.npr.org/cf/cmn/cmnps05fm.cfm?SegID=39441 (May 30, 1997)
Farrakhan Meets the Press
(The Final Call)
http://www.finalcall.com/national/mlf-mtp5-13-97.html (May 20, 1997)
Will Tiger Law Take Bite From Minority Clout?
by Catherine Ivey (The Bronx Beat)
http://moon.jrn.columbia.edu/BronxBeat/indices/051997/tiger.html (May 19, 1997)
Time for a summit on racism
by YVONNE SCRUGGS-LEFTWICH (Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/editorial/97/05/18/yvonne.0-0.html (May 18, 1997)
It’s time to ‘master’ discussions about race
by John C. Ward (The Lexington Herald-Leader)
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/051897/frace.html (May 18, 1997)
Report discounts ‘multiracial’ listing fears
by Larry Bivins (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9705/16/05160089.htm (May 16, 1997)
Multiracial category on census may have little effect on counts
by Rad Sallee (Houston Chronicle)
http://w ww.chron.com/content/chronicle/nation/97/05/16/multiracial.2-0.html (May 16, 1997)
Shades of difference
by Maria T. Padilla (Orlando Sentinel)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/0507mix.htm (May 7, 1997)
I’m Just Who I Am
by Jack E. White (TIME Magazine)
http://pathfinder.com/@@NnuSZAcACbOSH0Di/time/magazine/1997/dom/970505/nation.im_just_who_i.html (May 5, 1997)
Three Profiles
(TIME Magazine)
http://pathfinder.com/@@NnuSZAcACbOSH0Di/time/magazine/1997/dom/970505/nation.profiles.html (May 5, 1997)
The Multiracial Option
by M. Elaine Mar (Harvard Magazine)
http://www.harvard-magazine.com/mj97/right.multi.html (May/June 1997)
Woodrow Wilson, Lisa Jones & Itabari Njeri: The Irony and Wonder of Them All
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor11.html (May/June 1997)
Boxing People In: Census 2000 offers an uncertain hope for biracial recognition.
by Ciarra Torres (Perspective)
http://www.digitas.harvard.edu/~perspy/issues/1997/may/boxing.html (May 1997)
My Race Problem – And Ours
by Randall Kennedy (The Atlantic Monthly)
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97may/kennedy.htm (May 1997)
Celebrate Personal Achievement, Not ‘Race’ Achievement
by Anthony Givhan (AFRONET)
http://www.afronet.com/WB/043097-3.html (April 30, 1997)
cablinasian like me
by Gary Kamiya (Salon Magazine)
http://www.salonmagazine.com/april97/tiger970430.html (April 30, 1997)
Powell says racism remains problem
by Jim Abrams (Associated Press)
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/digest/daily/april/27/problem.htm (April 27, 1997)
Tiger’s Comments Stir Up Racial-Designation Debate
by Oralander Brand-Williams (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/nation/9704/25/04250103.htm (April 25, 1997)
(Featuring INTERRACIAL VOICE Editor & Publisher, Charles Michael Byrd)
Editorial Notebook: What’s in a name for blacks? Ask Tiger Woods
by Daryl Strickland (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/EDITPAGE/9704/25/notebook/notebook.htm (April 25, 1997)
Woods says calling him simply ‘black’ a mistake
by Michael Fletcher (The Washington Post)
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/042397/ff5tig.html (April 23, 1997)
Struggling in America’s melting pot
by Ed Timms and Thomas G. Watts (The Dallas Morning News)
http://www.dallasnews.com/national-nf/nat126.htm (April 20, 1997)
(Featuring Project RACE members: Susan Graham of Atlanta, Michelle Smawley of New York, and Anna Maria Gill of Houston)
Civil rites: Arguments against same-sex marriage mirror those that kept the races apart
by Deb Price (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/accent/9704/18/04180057.htm (April 18, 1997)
Talk of the Nation: Racial Categories
(National Public Radio)
http://www.npr.org/ramarchives/ne7a0801-5.ram (April 8, 1997)
Groups with special interests insist on cluttering things up in simpler Census
by Pete Waldmeir (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9704/07/04070092.htm (April 7, 1997)
‘Mixed-race’ may be new category in 2000 census
(The Minnesota Daily/Associated Press)
http://www.mndaily.com/daily/1997/04/03/world_nation/wn043c.ap/ (April 3, 1997)
Mixed-race Americans want government’s recognition
(The Associated Press)
http://www.lubbockonline.com/news/040397/mixed.htm (April 3, 1997)
Fading to White
by Jillian A. Sim (American Heritage)
http://www.americanheritage.com/99/feb/002.htm (April 1997)
Count on changes in Census 2000
by Kyoko Altman (CNN Interactive)
http://cnn.com/US/9703/31/census/ (March 31, 1997)
‘Passages’ doesn’t reach its destination
by Kenneth Jones (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/accent/9703/17/03170024.htm (March 17, 1997)
An Emerging Question: Black or Multiracial?
by Dr. Manning Marable (CNN Interactive)
http://www.afronet.com/WB/031597-1.html/ (March 15, 1997)
Miscegenation: The Morality of Death
(National Vanguard Magazine)
http://www.natvan.com/national-vanguard/117/racemix.html (March-April 1997)
Kweisi Mfume Just Doesn’t Get It!
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor10.html (March/April 1997)
Like minds, different races – Partners in biracial marriages and their children gather for a family fun night.
by Ron Davis (The Springfield News-Leader)
http://www.springfieldnews-leader.com/webextra/r072901g.html (February 28, 1997)
Interracial marriage not a problem, couples say
by Tamara Natasha Spence (The Daily Universe)
http://newsline.byu.edu/newsline/Archives/news/9702/970224INTER.HTM (February 24, 1997)
Our children need more multiracial storybooks
by Merlene Davis (The Lexington Herald-Leader)
http://www.kentuckyconnect.com/heraldleader/news/0218/fdavis.html (February 18, 1997)
Reveals Blurred Racial Lines of Prominent Families
(FRONTLINE ONLINE)
https://www.multiracial.com/news/pr970214.html (February 14, 1997)
Continued Debate Over Census 2000: Sampling, Funding, and the “Multiracial” Category
(The Civil Rights Monitor)
http://www.civilrights.org/lcef/monitor/race.html (February/March 1997)
Love in the 90’s: Interracial Marriage
by Ayelle Ecarma (Filipino Today)
http://www.interlog.com/~filtoday/feb97/romance.htm (February 1997)
Lawmaker: Make English official state language
by Kenneth Cole (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9701/24/01240141.htm (January 24, 1997)
Britain is having interracial sex
by Michael Conally (YUSH PONLINE)
http://www.leevalley.co.uk/yush/rewind/yush0112/racesex.htm (January 23, 1997)
Iverson, police better be quiet — or they can risk blowing the case
by Pete Waldmeir (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/metro/9701/12/01120128.htm (January 12, 1997)
NAACP’s Views on New Multiracial Category
by Kweisi Mfume (NAACP)
https://www.multiracial.com/news/naacp1.html (January 6, 1997)
Texas conflict reflects debate on adoption among races
by Sue Ann Pressley (The Detroit News)
http://detnews.com/1997/outlook/9701/05/01050006.htm (January 5, 1997)
Hispanics
by Karenna Gore (Slate)
http://www.slate.com/Gist/97-01-04/Gist.asp (January 4, 1997)
Census 2000 Approaches
(The Civil Rights Monitor)
http://www.lccr.org/lcef/monitor/91-9.htm (January 1997)
Has The New York Times Pronounced The Multiracial Initiative Dead?
by Charles Michael Byrd (INTERRACIAL VOICE)
http://www.interracialvoice.com/editor9.html (January/February 1997)
Multiracial Conundrum
by Helen Cordes (Utne Reader)
http://www.utne.com/lens/atc/13atcmulti.html
It Takes All Kinds – The story of a nation is found in the stories of its people.
(PBS & POV)
http://www.pbs.org/pov/learning/ (1997)
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