Words & Concepts
Made up of or relating to people of several ethnic groups.
What is multiethnic?
The state has the highest intermarriage rate, with 42% of newlyweds intermarrying, according to Pew Research Center.
This actress and singer of Euphoria and The Greatest Showman is known for embracing her African-American and European heritage and promoting representation in Hollywood.
Who is Zendaya?
Relating to or constituting several cultural or ethnic groups within a society. Not the same as multiracial!
What is multicultural?
The year the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirmed the right to marry "without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion."
The Native Hawaiian, Puerto Rican, and Portuguese actress who voiced Moana at just sixteen years old.
Who is Auliʻi Cravalho?
A respectful Hawaiʻi-born term meaning “part” that some mixed folks identify with.
What is hapa?
The year the U.S. Census first let people mark more than one race.
What is 2000?
The former U.S. president whose mother was white and father was Kenyan.
Who is Barack Obama?
The idea that individuals belong to many identity groups at once, shaping their experience.
What is intersectionality?
A past U.S. practice defining anyone with any Black ancestry as Black.
What is the “one-drop rule”?
Tennis champion with Black and Japanese heritage who has spoken openly about identity.
Who is Naomi Osaka?
Choosing different ways of speaking or behaving depending on the setting.
What is codeswitching?
This 1967 Supreme Court case struck down U.S. bans on interracial marriage.
What is Loving v. Virginia?
The multiracial singer of “drivers license,” who has discussed Filipino heritage.
Who is Olivia Rodrigo?