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Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Jewish, Right?
“Martin Luther King Jr. Was Jewish, Right?” And Other Stuff Kids from Multicultural Families come up With. “I have a dream that one day … little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands...
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An Early Biracial Memory
Just a short post before I go off to the Writer’s Digest Conference—my first writers’ conference ever. I typed up the following (previously scrawled in the margins of a notebook) to distract myself...
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Ruth Rosen’s Black Granddaughter
My maternal grandparents, Ruth and Ben Rosen, sometime in the 1930s I usually tell the story of my grandmother with about as much emotion as I’d have making a grocery list. People might say, That’s so...
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Other Side of the Lake
My Dad and me at another lake at an earlier time. I think I'm two. The summer I was ten, my parents and I rented a big yellow farm house which was a stone’s throw from a clear, blue lake. Everyone with...
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Who’s Afraid of The Little Mermaid?
Aged three. Make mine the Princess cup, please. Visiting middle schools with my daughter last week has me musing about change: the upcoming changes in my daughter, in our relationship—as she relies on...
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The Hunger Games, Corduroy and Me
Though I read The Hunger Games Trilogy, I have yet to see the movie—just because I haven’t found time. I’m thrilled that the reviews are so good, that all this anticipation won’t be for naught. I am...
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Some ’70s Style Racial Candor from the Drunk on the Bus
(I dedicate this post to my dad, Mel Williamson, who would have celebrated his 89th birthday today.) The Jeffersons, 1970s "Multiracial" TVYesterday, I was honored to be interviewed by Carol Morello,...
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Not Jungle Fever
In London, a few years ago I mentioned in my last post that I’d been interviewed by the Washington Post’s Carol Morello for her article entitled: Number of Biracial Babies Soars Over Past Decade. In...
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A Daughter by any Color
“My god, she’s the spitting image of you,” strangers have said. “She’s your mini-me!” When I arrived at parents night and met Zoe’s middle school teachers for the first time, they all said, “Well, we...
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Multiracial? Or Multicultural?
A few months back, I wrote a post called A Daughter by Any Color, about the experience of parenting a child who looks like me, after being raised by a mother who doesn’t. Today, I wrote another post...
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For Canines of Mixed Ethnic Heritage
“He’s a golden doodle?” said the woman with the boxer, eyeing my sweet, black-and-white puppy with the same skepticism my mother had faced when I was little. Back then, everyone wondered how I—this...
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Does the “White Privilege” Umbrella cover Black and Biracial Children?...
This is the first post I have written soliciting responses to a survey—so I’m stating it up front: At the end of this post is an actual, honest-to-goodness survey for those who are interested and who...
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Thinking Outside the “Other” Box: An Inclusive Mixed Identity
I am happy to announce that I have joined the blogging team for the Mixed Remixed Festival. I thank Heidi W. Durrow, best-selling author of The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, and Joy Stoffers, author of...
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Ruth Rosen’s Black Granddaughter
My maternal grandparents, Ruth and Ben Rosen, sometime in the 1930s I usually tell the story of my grandmother with about as much emotion as I’d have making a grocery list. People might say, That’s so...
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Ask Lisa: Ambiguous Looks, Identity Concerns
Posting my 4th “Ask Lisa: Advice for the Multiracial Community” column. This week, I answer questions from a white mom wondering how to prepare her ambiguous-looking children for anti-ethnic hostility,...
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