Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America
On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America features individuals from this rapidly growing demographic of mixed race Americans across the country who identify as more than one race. Through words and images, Mike Touber and Pamela Singh explore the concept of race in America through the prism of the very personal...
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On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America features individuals from this rapidly growing demographic of mixed race Americans across the country who identify as more than one race. Through words and images, Mike Touber and Pamela Singh explore the concept of race in America through the prism of the very personal experiences of people of mixed race heritage. Library Journal In this generously illustrated book, a work of art as much as a work of literature in terms of its size, coffee-table format, and presentation, Tauber and Singh, a New York-based husband-and-wife team who are the parents of mixed-race children, here compile the portraits and interviews of mixed-race Americans, who constitute the fastest-growing demographic in the United States, anticipated to make up more than 33 percent of the population by the 2010 census (they numbered seven million in the 2000 census). The authors attempt to show how race is determined less by biology than by other factors, not limited to visual cues such as facial features and skin color, socioeconomic status, geographies, societies, cultures, political constructs, and self-identities. Included is a foreword by NBC news anchor Ann Curry, an introduction by Rebecca Walker (award-winning author of Black, White, and Jewish), and an essay by professor Alan H. Goodman (biological anthropology, Hampshire Coll.). VERDICT Similar to Peter Feldstein and Stephen G. Bloom's The Oxford Project, this is an ambitious, artful, and carefully conceived effort to explore the greater issue of race in America. For local urban, large public, and undergraduate academic libraries.—Cheryl Ann Lajos, Free Lib. of Philadelphia
\ Library JournalIn this generously illustrated book, a work of art as much as a work of literature in terms of its size, coffee-table format, and presentation, Tauber and Singh, a New York-based husband-and-wife team who are the parents of mixed-race children, here compile the portraits and interviews of mixed-race Americans, who constitute the fastest-growing demographic in the United States, anticipated to make up more than 33 percent of the population by the 2010 census (they numbered seven million in the 2000 census). The authors attempt to show how race is determined less by biology than by other factors, not limited to visual cues such as facial features and skin color, socioeconomic status, geographies, societies, cultures, political constructs, and self-identities. Included is a foreword by NBC news anchor Ann Curry, an introduction by Rebecca Walker (award-winning author of Black, White, and Jewish), and an essay by professor Alan H. Goodman (biological anthropology, Hampshire Coll.). VERDICT Similar to Peter Feldstein and Stephen G. Bloom's The Oxford Project, this is an ambitious, artful, and carefully conceived effort to explore the greater issue of race in America. For local urban, large public, and undergraduate academic libraries.—Cheryl Ann Lajos, Free Lib. of Philadelphia\ \
