La. interracial marriage: Is life tougher for biracial kids?

Christian Science Monitor by Patrik Jonsson | Oct. 16, 2009 (News Analysis)

Researchers are finding that multiracial kids can sometimes be better socially adjusted than single-race offspring. And with the high-profile success of multiracial progeny such as Tiger Woods, Halle Berry, and President Obama (who at his first press conference as president described himself as a "mutt"), stereotypes about the split world of the "tragic mulatto" have long fallen by the wayside. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Jim Lang - Oct 19, 2009 - 12:21 PM PDT
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 by Jim Lang - Oct. 19, 2009

This analysis, long on everyday experience but short on objective study, attacks the view that life is tougher for biracial kids. It ends by noting that regarding interracial marriage, one's opinion on that subject is irrelevant.

Whether biracial children in rural Louisiana experience …confidence in their identity …is an open question. Even if they don’t, Bardwell, the justice of ... More »

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