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Race 2.0? | being mixed on The Current | CBC Radio

"Mixed Blessings" is a four-part series on CBC Radio's The Current that looks at the growing number of people of mixed "race", and what it means to identity, arts, culture and public policy.

The series is airing the week of Sept. 10 on The Current at 8:30 a.m. (9:00 in Newfoundland) on CBC Radio One. Click HERE) to listen to the series, download a podcast, and/or to read an article by Current producer Lisa Khoo (who is of Chinese, Malay, English, and Scottish ancestry) in which she and others interrogate what being of mixed "race" ancestry has on one's personal, social, and cultural life in contemporary Canada.

As Khoo acknowledges, "...today, mixed "race" people are perceived as ethnically ambiguous, even exotic, and are being touted as a marketer's dream. Mixed "race" people are starting Facebook clubs, activist groups, writing books, plays, poetry. They're doing visual art, documentaries, even standup comedy routines. In addition to exploring their own identities, they're challenging our notions of "race", ethnicity and national identity. That has implications for public policy as well as society as a whole."

(PHOTO CREDIT: Golfer Tiger Woods holds his newborn daughter Sam Alexis Woods as wife Elin kisses the baby. Woods has famously refered to his mixed "race" identity as 'Cablinasian,' a word he derived from Caucasian, black, American-Indian and Asian. (WireImage, Gretchen Dow Mashkuri/Associated Press) FROM www.cbc.ca/news/background/mixedblessings)

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Comment re Sept 13th program on multi-ethnic issues in Canada; three womn were interviewed and there was commentary about Canada then and now: what is characteristically left out is aboriginal people being the original Canadians, the baseline before European immigration, followed by recent immigration from other countries. It is a striking and concerning distortion of the actual historical situation to completely omit this history of colonization and its legacy.

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