Multiracial Family Man

Ep. 10: Stefanie Smith is a biracial woman, who grew up in Alabama and is now an Urban Justice Fellow. Listen as Stefanie and Alex discuss the Multiracial experience, including Stephanie's own personal experience as a biracial person (involving some deep-seated racism aimed at her mother and herself).  Stefanie also discusses her current work aimed at studying the unique issues facing multiracial people like herself. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 9: Sherene Crawford is a biracial woman, adopted by White Parents, who is now a Criminal Justice Advocate with the National Network http://nnscommunities.org/who-we-are/staff.  Listen as Sherene and Alex discuss the Multiracial experience, including Sherene's own personal experiences, as a biracial person who was adopted by White people (transracial adoption) as well as criminal justice as it affects persons of color. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 8: Tai Babilonia is Black, Filipino, and Native American.  She also is a former pairs figure skating Olympian and U.S. and World Champion.  Her skating partner was Randy Garnder.  For more on Tai, please visit her website: http://www.taibabilonia.com/.  Listen as Tai and Alex discuss the Multiracial experience, including Tai's own personal experiences on the ice and off. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 7: Jason Cuthbert is a filmmaker and the creator, writer, director and producer of the multiracial documentary Colouring Book, which examines the multiracial experience from the perspective of those who are multiracial or biracial and those who are in interracial relationships.  Listen as Jason and Alex discuss these multiracial experiences, including Jason's own experiences as a biracial man. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 6: Anita Allen is the Vice Provost for Faculty and Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.  Professor Allen also is in an interracial marriage, and she and her husband adopted two multiracial children.  Listen as Anita and Alex discuss the Multiracial experience, including Anita's own experiences as a spouse and parent. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 5: Heidi Durrow, author of the New York Times bestseller, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, is also the founder of the Mixed-Remixed Festival.  For more on Heidi, please see: http://heidiwdurrow.com/.  Listen as Heidi and Alex discuss the biracial experience, including Heidi's own experience as a biracial person of African-American and Danish extraction, addressing multiracial issues in fiction, and the fantastic growth of the Mixed-Remixed Festival. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 4: Christelyn Karazin is the author of the multiracial dating book, Swirling (http://www.amazon.com/Swirling-Relate-Mixing-Culture-Creed/dp/1451625855) and the founder/creator of the multiracial dating website: Beyond Black & White (www.beyondblackwhite.com).  Listen as she discusses her own interracial marriage and talks about raising multiracial kids. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic. Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/  

Ep. 3: Tiffany Jones is the creator of Mulatto Diaries (Youtube vlog/blog hosted by Wordpress), which has been used as a resource in college lectures on race, and has been noted as a relevant example of new media in the Society of Professional Journalists' Quill.  Born in Detroit, MI, Jones holds a BFA in Theatre Performance from The University of Michigan and is based in New York City. Mulatto Diaries: The Movie, a short documentary chronicling Tiffany's first year of publicly discussing the black/white biracial experience in America was part of the Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival in Los Angeles and The Martha's Vineyard African American Film Festival on Martha's Vineyard. The footage originally appeared on youtube as part of the "mulatto diaries" vlog series, giving voice to the decidedly "untragic" mulatto. You can find the series from which these twenty minutes were compiled at www.youtube.com/user/tiffdjones.  For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visi

Ep. 2: Michael David Murphy is the founder of the website, WeArethe15percent.com, which celebrates multiracial families and the fact that multiracial marriages now represent about 15% of all new marriages.  Listen as Michael and Alex discuss how the website was founded in the wake of the controversial multiracial family Cheerios ad and how the website, which is sourced with content from multiracial families across the United States, continues to grow all the time.  Also, don't miss Michael's discussion of how he met his wife online and how their own multiracial family is flourishing. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.   Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Ep. 1: Sebastian A. Jones, moviemaker, music-maker, and writer comes on the podcast for a discussion of the "multiracial experience" particularly as portrayed in literature and the arts. Sebastian A. Jones, is the co-author, along with actress Garcelle Beauvais, of the I Am Children's book series, including the acclaimed book, I Am Mixed.  He also has a series of graphic novels and a Young Adult novel, featuring characters of mixed heritage (like Sebastian himself).  For more on Sebastian, please go to: http://www.strangercomics.com/. For more on Alex Barnett, please check out his website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic) or on Twitter at @barnettcomic.     Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/