Once in a life time, something comes across your path that is so perfect it is hard to believe it is real. This contest is one of those things. Imagine, $50,000 to travel across the country documenting in photographs and words, your dream assignment.
It didn’t take me very long to decide upon my dream. I am biracial, and identifying as such has shaped everything about me. I spent my senior year in the USC sociology department studying biracial and multiracial identity. Since then it has been a dream of mine to document and photograph other biracial and multiracial individuals around the country.
With the election of Barack Obama as President I feel that now is the perfect time to discover what the new faces of America have to say, and how we can learn that we are not all so very different after all.
I hope that you will help me in achieving my dream. Please “Pic” my assignment, and please, if you feel that this is a valuable endeavor, share this with your friends and family. http://www.nameyourdreamassignment.com/the-ideas/lawahine/mixed-blessings-the-story-of-a-biracial-america/
Thank you.
Check out the new film, MULTIRACIAL IDENTITY, at Portland State University on Wed. March 3 @ 6:30 pm in the Multicultural Center (SMU 228) 1825 SW Broadway, Portland OR.
This new documentary explores the social and political impact of adding a Multiracial Category—the fastest growing demographic in America—as a stand alone racial group on the US Census. 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 represents the dilution of the culture. Preview this 88-minute film, followed by refreshments and join the discussion with filmmaker Brian Chinhema; Ethan Johnson, PSU Black Studies; Sarah Ross, Director, HONEY (Honoring our New Ethnic Youth) Inc.; Thomas Wright, Director, Oregon Council on Multiracial Affairs; and Dana Stone, Adjunct Faculty, University of Oregon Couples & Family Therapy.
Preview of film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehhxGC0cd4E