Living Room – March 26, 2010

Posted in Arts, Audio, Census/Demographics, Media Archive, United States on 2015-11-26 18:12Z by Steven

Living Room – March 26, 2010

Living Room
94.1 KPFA
Berkeley, California
2010-03-26

LIVING ROOM Friday 26 March 2010 Healthcare eternal battle; Blended Nation. Healthcare insurance reform has passed—sort of; yet more hurdles continue to be erected. We look at reality. PLUS: the reality of race, as a blend, not an absolute. With host Kris Welch, noon to one.

Guests:

Ellen Shaffer, co-dir Center for Policy Analysis
Prof. Robt. Schapiro, Emory University School of Law
Enzo Pastore, health policy specialist, Progressive States Network
Michael Lighty, California Nurses Association

Mike Tauber, Pamela Singh, co-authors “Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

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Beyond Black & White: Mike Tauber ´94 and Pamela Singh ´95 cross the color lines in their new book on mixed-race America

Posted in Articles, Arts, Census/Demographics, New Media, Social Science, United States on 2010-03-09 19:58Z by Steven

Beyond Black & White: Mike Tauber ´94 and Pamela Singh ´95 cross the color lines in their new book on mixed-race America

CC: online
Connecticut College Magazine
Fall 2009

Phoebe Hall

On a perfect summer day in July, Mike Tauber ´94 and Pamela Singh ´95 relax on the screened porch of their home in Fairfield, Conn[ecticut] As they try to feed lunch to their sons, Wyatt, 3, and Rohwan, 1, Tauber and Singh talk about typical parenting challenges: potty training, finding babysitters, and juggling their work schedules.

But they face not-so-typical challenges too. Like when strangers mistake Singh for the babysitter, and the white nanny as Tauber´s wife. Or when teachers assume Wyatt can´t speak English. Or when they fill out forms for schools or doctors and have to pick just one box to identify their sons´ race.

It was this issue of pigeon-holing, one with which Singh herself has struggled for years, that inspired the couple to collaborate on a coffee-table book, “Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America.” Published this summer by Channel Photographics, the book features individuals and families who identified themselves as multiracial on the 2000 U.S. Census, the first time they could do so…

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Blended Nation: A Portrait of Mixed-Race America

Posted in Articles, Arts, Book/Video Reviews, Family/Parenting, Identity Development/Psychology, New Media, Politics/Public Policy, United States on 2010-03-05 23:45Z by Steven

Blended Nation: A Portrait of Mixed-Race America

Yes! Magazine
2010-02-10

The fear and xenophobia in the aftermath of 9/11 got Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh thinking about how race and ethnicity are based on visual cues.

They began photographing a network of mixed-race friends in the spring of 2002, eventually working with organizations like Swirl, a national, multiracial organization that challenges notions of race; and the Mavin Foundation, an organization that raises awareness about the experiences of multiracial people.

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Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

Posted in Arts, Books, Census/Demographics, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, Monographs, Social Science, United States on 2010-03-05 23:23Z by Steven

Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

Channel Photographics
2009-08-11
140 pages
11 x 11 inches
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-9773399-2-1

Mike Tauber

Pamela Singh

What are you? 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 Tauber and Pamela Singh explore the concept of race in America through the prism of the very personal experiences of people of mixed race heritage. Ann Curry writes in her Foreword, “As dad would say, ‘You are the best of both worlds,’ and so are the people you see on these pages, who cannot but strengthen America’s dream, as they are living proof it comes true.”

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Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’

Posted in Articles, Arts, Audio, Book/Video Reviews, Census/Demographics, Family/Parenting, Identity Development/Psychology, New Media, Politics/Public Policy, Social Science, United States on 2010-03-05 23:02Z by Steven

Mixed Race Americans Picture A ‘Blended Nation’

Weekend Edition Sunday
National Public Radio
2009-11-08

Liane Hansen, Host

The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that’s expected to shoot up in the 2010 count. As more of the nation’s population identifies itself as being of mixed race, the authors of a new book say Americans’ traditional ideas of racial identity are in for a challenge.

In the book Blended Nation, photographer Mike Tauber and producer Pamela Singh combine portraits of mixed-race Americans with stories of living beyond the sometimes rigid notions of race. The husband-and-wife team tell host Liane Hansen they wanted to highlight the personal experiences of life between categories.

“We really wanted to know what it was like for somebody who checks more than one box to exist in that realm,” Tauber says…

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Geek Out: Mixed Race in America

Posted in Arts, Live Events, New Media, United States on 2010-02-10 02:47Z by Steven

Geek Out: Mixed Race in America

University of Californa, Berkeley
Lawrence Hall of Science
2010-02-10, 19:00 to 22:00 PST (Local Time)

Geek Discourse
Tour the “Race: Are We So Different?” exhibit and participate in a discussion facilitated by Dr. Victoria Robinson of the UC Berkeley Ethnic Studies and American Cultures programs on what it means to be mixed race in America. Authors of the book “Blended Nation” Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh will present several photographs and stories from the book…

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