Exploring the Stories of Mixed-Race Californians

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KQED

Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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More than 2 million Californians identified as more than one race in the 2020 Census. KQED’s California Report Magazine has launched a series to capture the varied experiences of those straddling multiple races. KQED’s Sasha Khokha and Marisa Lagos join Forum to talk about their series, Mixed! Stories of Mixed Race Californians, and both of their experiences growing up in mixed-race families and now raising children in their own multi-racial marriages. Guests: Marisa Lagos, politics correspondent, KQED; co-host, KQED's Political Breakdown show Sasha Khokha, host, The California Report Magazine on KQED Dr. Jennifer Noble, psychologist, educator and coach for families with mixed-race kids Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.7	More than 2 million Californians identified as more than one race in the 2020 census,
1:05.0	and many more of us have ancestors who make us a mix of ethnicities.
1:09.5	There's something distinct and interesting
1:11.3	about the perspective you get straddling worlds and cultures.
1:15.7	These experiences are the subject of a new KQEDE series
1:19.1	by Sasha Koka and Marisa Lagos.
1:21.7	It's called Mixed Stories of Mixed Race Californians,
1:25.0	and we'll spend the hour listening to their reporting
1:27.2	and hearing your experiences of mixed families hereace Californians, and we'll spend the hour listening to their reporting and
1:27.7	hearing your experiences of mixed families here in the Bay Area. That's all coming up next
1:33.0	after this news.
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