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Here you can find movies, TV shows, and articles from the web, magazines, and newspapers about MixedFolks.  For the numerous books written about MixedFolks check out The MixedFolks.com Library.   

Movies:

	Anne Rice's The Feast of all Saints incendiary historical novel becomes this powerful original drama about Marcel St. Marie (Robert Ri'chard), a "free person of color" in early 19th century New Orleans. Betrayed by his white father (Peter Gallagher), Marcel and his devastated family learn some painful truths about race in a country where they are neither totally free nor totally slave. Gloria Reuben, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Jennifer Beals, Eartha Kitt, Pam Grier, Jasmine Guy, Victoria Rowell, Nicole Lyn, and Ben Vereen costar in this film from director Peter Medak.
	Out on Video, Mixing Nia.  Nia (Karyn Parsons), the daughter of a Black mom and White dad, wrestles with her bicultural heritage.  She is a successful copy writer at ad agency, and she leads white yuppie life (though her mother is black). She quits the agency when she is ordered to push a new brand of beer to black ghetto kids and goes searching for her racial identity.   Her White colleague Matt has eyes for her, but she wants Lewis, a professor of African–American studies.  Also available on  DVD
	This is the unlikely tale of the tumult caused in a small community when the inbred denizens discover they have a young American cousin who is talented, handsome and black. When Chad Egan-Washington (Hill Harper) shows up on the Irish island of Inis Dara to scatter his mother's ashes on her native land, his misanthropic uncle Tony Egan (Donal McCann), a farmer, is the first to be shocked. Having broken off contact with his sister 20 years back after a spat, Tony had no idea she had married a black New Yorker or that she ran a grocery store in Hell's Kitchen. Chad, an extremely polite boy with dreadlocks and a talent for sketching, is soon accepted as an oddity. He doesn't take to farm chores much, but the girls in town are wild about his exotic looks and American accent.
	Producer David Wolper (ROOTS, THE THORNBIRDS) was granted to permission to film an adaptation of the piece acclaimed writer Alex Haley was working on at the time of his death. The title character (Halle Berry) is the child of a slave woman and a male plantation owner. Queen's life is experienced through the turmoil of the Civil War, Reconstruction and the early 20th Century. Through it all, Queen experiences both sides of segregation and prejudice with her light skinned complexion. An important television event based on the last work of a legendary American author.

Films about Racially Mixed People and Relationships - is a site that list documentaries, feature films and short films about MixedFolks.

Television:

The Ananda Lewis Show - On the November 15 show Ananda meets some mothers who say that joy has been tainted by the views of others in their family. You will meet one woman who says that her uncle stopped talking to her, and in essence “disowned” her, when she started dating a black man two years ago. She has since had a biracial baby boy, and her uncle refuses to even see the child. Ananda will also talk to a pregnant woman who was very reluctant to tell her mother that her grandson will be biracial, due to her mother’s negative view on interracial relationships. Plus, we’ll talk to a biracial author who will talk to the families about how to create a positive environment for these babies.

MTV's The Real World

The Multiracial Millennium - There's a show on cable channel CAN TV21 in Chicago on Saturday nights at 8:30pm called "The Multiracial Millennium" hosted by Bridgette Glickman (Another MixedFolk). Heather Dalmage, author of Tripping on the Color Line...., is a recurring guest. The show deals with topics that concern multiracial families and individuals (i.e. identity development, transracial adoption, and many of the topics Heather explores in her book - border patrolling, colorism, rebound racism, etc.). The show premiered in March and will run through the summer. If you would like to contact Bridgette Glickman regarding the show send her an e-mail.

PBS American Love Stories - The series chronicles a year-and-a-half in the life of the Wilson-Sims family, offering a joyful testament to the everyday lives of this couple as they work, cope with illness, juggle finances, and raise their bi-racial daughters -- Cicily, a 20-year-old senior at Colgate University, and Chaney, a 12-year-old seventh grader on the brink of adolescence. The series ran from Sunday, September 12, 1999 through Thursday, September 16 on PBS stations nationwide. Your local public TV station may schedule repeat broadcasts, so check the ITVS database to find out if it's scheduled in your area. You can also browse station websites with the PBS stations listing. You can buy the video from PBS Website.

PBS Frontline Special on Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings - Examines Jefferson's life and follows the descendants of Jefferson and Hemings as they undergo DNA testing, search out their family history and try to sort out their place along America's blurred color line. Originally aired in May of 2000 the video can be purchased from ShopPBS. Check out the web site for it as well as it covers many other aspects of Mixed Race America such as Defining Race, The 2000 Census, "Forbidden Love", and Passing for White.

PBS Frontline Special: Secret Daughter - Unfortunately this special, which aired in 1996, is no longer availble on video, however the website has tons of good stuff on People with Multiracial backgrounds including a profile of famous multiracial families.

Magazine Articles:

A U.S. News & World Reports article about mixed folks entitled "Don't you dare list them as 'other'; Multiracial Americans seek full recognition"

Trapped in the Body of a White Woman by Kathleen Cross appeared in EBONY magazine in October, 1990. A very interesting article about being a biracial woman who is mistaken for being White.

Newspaper Articles

The 'Other' Identity: Multi-racial students struggle against black/white mentality appeared in the Daily Texan in April of 2001. The article is about multiracial students at the University of Texas.

Mixed-Race Heritage, Mixed Emotions appeared in the Washington Post in mid-April. Another article discussing the issue of multiracial people and the 2000 census.

Data shows mixed-race population in Bay Area twice national average appeared in the San Jose Mercury News in March 2001. The article says, "the region, which prides itself on producing the technology of the future, is also home to the people of the future." Nice!!

Mixed-race youth grow in Metro area appeared in the Detroit News. The article talks about how "mixed-race people in their teens and 20s are more likely to assert their dual-race status than generations before them."

The Sacramento Bee did an article on Kings Guard Doug Christie and he talks a lot about being Mixed.

A March 31, 2001 article in the New York Times entitled "Blacks Split on Disclosing Multiracial Roots " talks about why some Blacks choose not to identify themselves as Multiracial while others do.  You need to subscribe to the New York Times on line to read the article though.

An article in the West County Times called A new portrait of America:  Challenging notions about racial identity By Sandy Kleffman

MixedFolks.com was mentioned in an article from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram called "Beyond black and white:  The 2000 Census will offer data about the nation's growing multiracial population."

A 1996 Seattle Times article entitled "Interracial Generation:  We Are Who we Are".

The Boondocks Comic strip which features a Mixed character.

Web Articles

Towards a twenty-first century vision of race: Why we should get rid of the boxes altogether By Ward Connerly. The title pretty much sums it up.

The SF Gate printed arguments both for and against the Racial Privacy Initiative proposed for the California ballot. Here is the Pro argument given by Ward Connerly and the Con argument given by Eve Paterson.

A BET article about Vin Diesel entitled 'Fast and Furious' Vin Diesel Speeds Over Hollywood's Color Line. "He plays Italians, robots and sci-fi criminals. But the real question is, just how Black is Vin Diesel? Peep how this actor's multi-racial looks get him some of the roles Denzel, Wesley and others can't get."

Salon.com has quite a few articles about MixedFolks:

• All Mixed Up - A Salon special report on multiracial America
• Do The Multiracial Count? - This year the Census Bureau will finally let mixed-race Americans tell the truth about their backgrounds. So why are civil rights groups upset?
• Love Strands - A white mom on the powerful bonding ritual of braiding her mixed-race daughters' hair.

MTV Asia did an interview with British pop star Craig David about being Mixed. The article is titled, "Craig David Proud Of His Mixed Indentity"