Our Mission

The aim of Mixed People’s History is to bring visibility to Multiracial & Interethnic communities and our experiences by community building through collected media, history, and resources. Every year more children are born from interracial families. According to the Pew Research Center, 9 million Americans (3%) categorized themselves as two or more races in the 2010 Census. And in 2015 one-in-seven U.S. infants (14%) were multiracial or multiethnic, nearly triple since 1980. Although our population keeps growing, we are left to navigate on our own. Our experiences as racial, ethnic, and culturally intersectional individuals have been defined by historic racial constructs that offer little to no acknowledgment of this existence that we were born into.

We want to broaden the dialogue on how the world frames issues of race and ethnicity as it relates to those of us who exist cross-culturally. Our hope is to create a sense of place and shared experience for those of us who never felt comfortable filling in, or fitting into one box. By providing an inclusive platform with a call to all of us to participate, share, and build a digital mosaic of our narratives, we empower and embolden ourselves.

With this project, we are collectively building a framework to understand our experience to help discern who we are and our place in this world.