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The Mixed Experience
by hdurrow
The top podcast about multiracial, multicultural, biracial & Mixed issues & experience. Interviews with artists, community leaders, scholars & regular folks. www.themixedexperience.com
Episodes
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S5, Ep. 3: Award-Winning Writer Amina Gautier
Amina Gautier is the author of three short story collections: At-Risk, Now We Will Be Happy and The Loss of All Lost Things. At-Risk was awarded the Flannery Oâ??Connor Award. Now We Will Be Happy was awarded the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, the International Latino Book Award, and was…
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S5, Ep. 2: NYT bestseller Julie Lythcott-Haims Real American
NYT bestselling writer Julie Lythcott-Haims talks about her new memoir Real American about growing up mixed race, biracial.
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S5, Ep. 1: The Mixed Race and Multiracial Experience
All the news about mixed race, multiracial, biracial and interracial experience including host Heidi Durrow's thoughts about this mixed-up world.
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S4 Ep. 19: Writer/Literary Critic Janet Savage
Janet Savage is the author of Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface. She is also an entertainment attorney who holds degrees from Harvard Law and Stanford. She lives in California and reads a lot.
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S4 Ep. 18: PEN/Bellwether Winner Lisa Ko author of The Leavers
Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, a novel which won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction and will be published by Algonquin Books in May 2017. Her writing has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2016, The New York Times, Apogee Journal, Narrative, O. Magazine, Copper...
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S4 Ep. 17: Hapa Actress Keiko Elizabeth & Playwright Phinneas Kiyomura
We talk about the new play Supper currently playing at Theatre of NOTE, 1517 Cahuenga Blvd., Hollywood.
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S4, Ep. 16: Linguist & Writer John McWhorter, Talking Back, Talking Black
In Talking Back, Talking Black devoted solely to the form, structure, and development of Black English, John McWhorter clearly explains its fundamentals and rich history, while carefully examining the cultural, educational, and political issues that have undermined recognition of this...
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S4, Ep. 15: Award-winning Writer & Soul Food Scholar Adrian Miller
Iâ??m a recovering lawyer and politico who turned into a food writer interested in the following topics: African heritage food (especially soul food), barbecue, the intersection of faith and food, and presidential foodways. His newest book is The President's Kitchen Cabinet: African-Americans Who...
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S4, Ep. 14: Mixed Race Writer Maria Olsen
Maria Leonard Olsen is a biracial woman whose parents were forbidden by law to marry in their home state of Maryland in the early 1960s. She is the mother of two children, a lawyer, journalist, radio talk show host (WPFW fm 89.3 in Washington, D.C.) and author of the children's book, â??Mommy,...
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S4, Ep. 13: Award-winning Mixed-race Writer Amina Gautier
Amina Gautier is the author of three award-winning short story collections: The Loss of All Lost Things, which won the Elixir Press Award in Fiction, Now We Will Be Happy, which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize, the USA Best Book Award in African American Fiction a Florida Authors and…
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S4, Ep. 12: Miscellaneous Mixed-ness & Loving the film
Catch up on the news of mixed-ness--all things mixed race and multiracial-- and my take on the excellent film Loving.
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S4, Ep. 11: Novelist Nicole Blades
I talk with novelist Nicole Blades about her new book The Thunder Beneath Us.
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S4, Ep. 10: Ginger McKnight-Chavers Debut Novelist, In the Heart of Texas
â??Ginger McKnight-Chavers expertly fuses politics, pop culture and hot topics surrounding race to create one of the most rousingly inspiring reads of fall.â?? â??Redbook Magazine
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S4, Ep. 9: Shine Text Founders Marah Lidey and Naomi Hirabayashi
Shine Text is led by two inspirational mixed chicks who want to give you the motivation you need each day. Hear their awesome story about growing their business & the great work they are doing!
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S4, Ep. 8: Mixed Race Magician Henok Negash
Henok is an American magician that has traveled the world to make the impossible a reality. Hailed by his contemporaries as a magician that is able to take classic effects and uniquely present them for modern audiences. He has brought his magic to television, nightclubs, magic publications and...
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S4, Ep. 7: Best-selling Author Mat Johnson, Loving Day
Mat Johnson's novel Loving Day is a major hit and it's all about the mixed-race and multiracial experience. Don't miss my interview with this talented and engaging writer.
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S4, Ep. 6: Award-Winning Writer Lori Tharps & Multiracial Families
Lori L. Tharps is an assistant professor of journalism at Temple University, an award-winning author, freelance journalist and popular speaker. Tharps' new book Same Family, Different Colors debuts Oct. 2016.
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S4, S5: McBride Sisters Wines Inspiring Biracial Founders
I talk with the sisters behind McBride Sisters Winery --fellow mixed chicks who grew up worlds apart but both with a shared passion for making wine. Hear their story!
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S4, Ep. 4: Scholar/Writer Arica Coleman
Arica Coleman is is an award-winning American historian whose research focuses on comparative ethnic studies and issues of racial formation and identity. She is the author of is an award-winning American historian whose research focuses on comparative ethnic studies and issues of racial formation...
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S4, Ep. 3: Scholar Robert Reece on Beauty & Claims of Mixed Identity
Robert Reece is a PhD candidate in sociology at Duke University where He takes an intersectional critical race approach to research on the American South, colorism, gender/sex/sexuality, and digital technology. Robert is a co-founder of Still Furious and Brave, a blogging collective of...
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S4, Ep. 2: Award-winning writer Hasanthika Sirisena
Author of The Other One, Winner of the Juniper Prize for Fiction.
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S4, Ep. 1: Filmmaker Ron Dawson & Mixed in America
Mixed in America is a short film documentary series about the stories of biracial people in the proverbial â??melting pot.â?? These are stories to which we can all relate: no matter what color, creed or culture you claim.
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S3, Ep. 25: Mari Naomi, Mixed Race Cartoonist & Writer
MariNaomi has been making memoir comics since 1997. She's the author and illustrator of the SPACE Prize-winning Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Resume, Ages 0 to 22 (Harper Perennial, 2011), the Eisner-nominated Dragon's Breath and Other True Stories (2dcloud/Uncivilized Books, 2014), the newly released...
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S3, Ep. 24: Writer Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
heryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York-based journalist and author of �?�¢??Sarong Party Girls�?�¢?? (William Morrow, 2016) as well as �?�¢??A Tiger In The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food & Family�?�¢?? (Hyperion, 2011). She is the editor of the fiction anthology �?�¢??Singapore Noir�?�¢??...
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S3, Ep. 23: Debut Phenom Novelist Natashia Deon
Natashia Deón is the recipient of a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices fellowship and her debut novel, Grace, is debuted June 2016 with Counterpoint Press. An attorney, writer, law professor, and creator of the popular L.A.-based reading series Dirty Laundry Lit, Deón was recently named one of…
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S3, Ep. 22: Award-Winning Writer Dmae Roberts
Dmae Roberts has recently completed her memoir book The Letting Go Trilogies: Stories of a Mixed Race Family which traces four decades of what it means to be a mixed-race adult who sometimes called herself â??Secret Asian Woman. With her personal essays written over a ten-year period, Dmae…
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S3, Ep. 21: Mixed Remixed Festival Update
Host Heidi Durrow gives us an update on the most epic Festival ever!
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S3, Ep. 20: The Mixed Race Experience Mixed Bag Update
We'll be talking about a mixed-bag of mixed-race news --I'm excited to again welcome Elizabeth Hudson for this episode as a guest co-host!
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S3, Ep. 19: Mixed Bag of Mixed-Race News w/guest co-host
We'll be talking about a mixed-bag of mixed-race news --I'm excited to welcome Elizabeth Hudson for this episode as a guest co-host!
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S3, Ep. 18: Mixed-Race Author Cassidy Arkin, Little Brown Girl
LITTLE BROWN GIRL is a story of the struggle to re-enter society after living in a cloistered utopian community, Synanon, in Marin County, California. This collaboration by Cassidy Arkin and her mother, Sandra Rogers-Hare is an open child and parent perspective of two very unique lives.
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S3, Ep. 17: Critical Mixed Race Scholar Paul Spickard
Paul R. Spickard is an American historian and the author of several books on the subject of race and ethnicity, particularly multiracialism.
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S3, Ep. 16: Mixed-Race Korean Adoptee Starts DNA Resource
Sarah Savidaki, a mixed-race Korean adoptee, has started a non-profit organization to help create a DNA network, 325kamra.org, to help adoptees find birth parents.
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S3, Ep. 15: Award-winning debut novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge
Don't miss my interview with an exciting new novelist whose book We Love You Charlie Freeman is taking the literary world by storm.
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S3, Ep. 14: Multiracial Artist Lindsay Harris, Evoking the Mulatto
Evoking the Mulatto is a multiplatform narrative and visual art project examining black mixed identity in the 21st century, within the context of the history of racial classification in the United States. Featuring filmed interviews with young mixed artists and activists, photographic portraits,...
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S3, Episode 13: Award-winning multiracial writer Matt de la Pena
Matt de la Pe�±a is the New York Times Bestselling, Newbery Medal winning author of six young adult novels (including Mexican WhiteBoy, We Were Here and The Living) and two picture books (A Nations Hope and Last Stop on Market Street). Matt received his MFA in creative writing from San Diego...
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S3, Episode 11: A Mixed Bag on Multiracial & Mixed Race News
Let's check in on all the latest news of the Mixed experience.
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S3, Episode 10: Author Sunil Yapa, Mixed Race Writing Phenom
Sunil Yapa holds a bachelorâ??s degree in economic geography from Penn State University and an MFA from Hunter College. The biracial son of a Sri Lankan father and mother from Montana, Yapa has lived around the world, including time in Greece, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, China, and India, as…
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S3, Episode 9: Traveling While Mixed or Multiracial
The What are you? and Where are you from? questions take on a whole new meaning abroad. Tune in.
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S3, Bonus 1: The Mixed-Race Mixtape, Biracial Stories Thru Hip Hop
I'm excited to talk with these exciting emerging artists from the Mixed-Race Mixtape who are mixing up the stories of the Mixed experience in a whole new way.
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S3, Episode 8: Multiracialism Informing Academic Work
I talk with four University of Michigan professors and their work illuminating the Mixed experience: Martha Jones,Mark Kamimura-Jimenez, Karen Downing and Edward West. They recently spoke on the same topic as part of a year-long series on multiracial and biracial identity at the university.
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S3, Episode 7: Listener Spotlight Update Peg Bolduc, Biracial Adoptee
Peg's journey to find her biological dad continues. Listen in to hear an update on how the search has turned out so far for this wonderful mixed chick!
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S3, Episode 5: Japanese War Brides Film & Biracial Daughters
This episode was pre-recorded in October 2015. I talk with the filmmakers of a powerful new documentary about the stories of the Japanese war brides who came to America after marrying American men. A touching & important film by their biracial daughters! http://www.fallsevengetupeight.com/
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S3, Episode 4: YA Author Ashley Hope Perez
Ashley Hope P�©rez is the author of three novels: Out of Darkness (2015), The Knife and the Butterfly (2012), and What Canâ??t Wait (2011). Out of Darkness received starred reviews from School Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews, which called the novel â??a powerful, layered tale of love in...
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S3, Episode 3: Writer Rhonda Roorda on Black Transracial Adoptees' Stories
Rhonda Roorda, adopted by a white family, is a highly-regarded national speaker on transracial adoption. Together with Rita Simon, she coauthored a landmark trilogy of books on transracial adoption (In Their Own Voices, In Their Parents' Voices, and In Their Siblings' Voices.) Ms. Roorda's...
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S3, Episode 2: Debut Novelist Joy Stoffers
Joy Stoffers was raised in East Brunswick, NJ, by a Taiwanese mother and a Caucasian father. At the age of six she wrote, illustrated, and promptly recycled her first short story. Since then she dreamed of becoming a novelist. She holds a BA in English from Rutgers University and an MA in…
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S3, Episode 1: Pulitzer Prize Winner Gregory Pardlo
Listen in to this interview with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo and help kick off Season 3 of The Mixed Experience.
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S2, Summer Short 8 - The Mixed Experience Flashback w/Daniel Sharfstein
Listen in on a great interview from interview archive in 2011 with Daniel Sharfstein who is the author of The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black to White (Penguin Press 2011) http://danieljsharfstein.com
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S2, Summer Short 7: Susan Katz Miller on "Being Both" in Interfaith Family
Author and journalist Susan Katz Miller is both an interfaith child and an interfaith parent. Her father is Jewish, her mother is protestant. She is the author of Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family www.susankatzmiller.com
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S2, Summer Short 6: Actress/Writer Katie Malia of Almost Asian
"Almost Asian" is a unique and witty new webseries from actress and writer, Katie Malia, that explores the ethnic dichotomies and racial diversities prevalent in youth culture today. www.almostasian.com
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S2, Summer Short 5: Blaxicans of LA with Walter Thompson-Hernandez
A wonderful photo project by Walter Thompson-Hernandez higlighting the experience of Los Angelenos mixed with an African-American and Mexican heritage. https://instagram.com/blaxicansofla/
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The top podcast about multiracial, multicultural, biracial & Mixed issues & experience. Interviews with artists, community leaders, scholars & regular folks. www.themixedexperience.com
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