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Multiracial Identity

Black History Month 2024 • 1h 16m

Directed by Brian Chinhema • Documentary • 2011 • 77 minutes

Multiracial people are the fastest growing demographic in America, yet there is no official political recognition for mixed-race people. MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY explores the social, political, and religious impact of the multiracial movement and the lived experience of being multiracial.

Different racial and cultural groups see multiracialism differently. For some Whites multiracialism represents the pollution of the White race. For some Blacks it represents an attempt to escape Blackness. And for some Asians, Latinos, and Arabs, multiracialism can be seen as ill equipped to perpetuate cultural traditions and therefore represents the dilution of the culture.

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aaron gullickson, affirmative action, african-american studies, aliya saperstein, arabs, asians, black history, bullfrog films, cultural and ethnic studies, doc, dr. susan hayflick, escaping blackness, expository, latinos, mixed-race people, multicultural studies, multiracial identity, multiracial movement, multiracial people, naomi zack, ovid, ovid_ca, pastor randall sanford, pollution of white race, quotas, race and racism, racism, rainier spencer, s_0005, s_0201, s_0237, social issues, title_ijklm, title_m

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