Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America by Mike Tauber
Photographs and Interviews by Mike Tauber
Co-produced by Pamela Singh
Foreword by Ann Curry
Introduction by Rebecca Walker
Essay by Alan Goodman, Ph.D.
What are you? On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America features individuals from this rapidly growing demographic of mixed race Americans across the country who identify as more than one race. Through words and images, Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh explore the concept of race in America through the prism of the very personal experiences of people of mixed race heritage. Ann Curry writes in her Foreword, “As dad would say, ‘You are the best of both worlds,’ and so are the people you see on these pages, who cannot but strengthen America's dream, as they are living proof it comes true.”
How should we define race and who should define it? Genetically we are all the same. Society has carved out categories in which to classify people so that it can better understand itself. But what is it like to be ‘racially ambiguous’ and what is race really? In his essay, Alan Goodman explores how we as a society make race a reality. In her Introduction to Blended Nation, Rebecca Walker writes, “When [Clive Tucker] says he tries not to recognize ‘any part of his so-called heritage if the inquiry is solely based on pigmentation,’ he’s pointing at a larger truth: our heritage is vast. We contain multitudes. Human history belongs to all of us. Each of us is entitled to claim its riches. And each of us is responsible for what we do with its wealth.”
"In 1980 I was White (at under a year old I had no real pigment yet, so my mother figured in race like religion you are what your mother is), in 1990 I was Black, and in 2000, thanks to a lot of lobbying, I was finally me: mixed."
–- Adia Hoag, Long Beach, CA
Published 2009 by Channel Photographics
70 images; 140 pgs; 11x11 inches
$34.95
Available online June 1, 2009 and in bookstores in July/August
www.channelphotographics.com
www.blendednation.com
www.miketauber.com
Co-produced by Pamela Singh
Foreword by Ann Curry
Introduction by Rebecca Walker
Essay by Alan Goodman, Ph.D.
What are you? On the 2000 U.S. Census, for the first time, multiracial individuals were allowed to indicate more than one race. Nearly seven million Americans did so. Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America features individuals from this rapidly growing demographic of mixed race Americans across the country who identify as more than one race. Through words and images, Mike Tauber and Pamela Singh explore the concept of race in America through the prism of the very personal experiences of people of mixed race heritage. Ann Curry writes in her Foreword, “As dad would say, ‘You are the best of both worlds,’ and so are the people you see on these pages, who cannot but strengthen America's dream, as they are living proof it comes true.”
How should we define race and who should define it? Genetically we are all the same. Society has carved out categories in which to classify people so that it can better understand itself. But what is it like to be ‘racially ambiguous’ and what is race really? In his essay, Alan Goodman explores how we as a society make race a reality. In her Introduction to Blended Nation, Rebecca Walker writes, “When [Clive Tucker] says he tries not to recognize ‘any part of his so-called heritage if the inquiry is solely based on pigmentation,’ he’s pointing at a larger truth: our heritage is vast. We contain multitudes. Human history belongs to all of us. Each of us is entitled to claim its riches. And each of us is responsible for what we do with its wealth.”
"In 1980 I was White (at under a year old I had no real pigment yet, so my mother figured in race like religion you are what your mother is), in 1990 I was Black, and in 2000, thanks to a lot of lobbying, I was finally me: mixed."
–- Adia Hoag, Long Beach, CA
Published 2009 by Channel Photographics
70 images; 140 pgs; 11x11 inches
$34.95
Available online June 1, 2009 and in bookstores in July/August
www.channelphotographics.com
www.blendednation.com
www.miketauber.com
