Blended Nation

Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America

By Mike Tauber (Photographer); Pamela Singh (Photographer); Rebecca Walker (Introduction by); Ann Curry (Foreword by); Alan Goodman (Contribution by)
(Channel Photographics, Hardcover, 9780977339921, 136pp.)

Publication Date: August 2009

Categories: Photoessays & Documentaries, Subjects & Themes - Portraits

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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, 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' ideas of racial identity are in for a challenge. More at NPR.org