20 years later and their words still ring true

It’s been two decades since BLACK, WHITE, OTHER: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity was first published, and this fall I mark that 20th anniversary with a new and revised ebook edition, featuring a foreword from novelist Mat Johnson (Pym,...

Bloodlines

This meditation on race was originally published in Breathe magazine in 2005, but it seems to fit with at least one stream of post-election dialogue. I have a white mother and a black father. In most contexts, the white part announces itself to the world first. But I...