(NAME-MCE) Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage

[Anselmo Villanueva]

Discussion of the Multiracial Multiethnic Experience at the national
level would be great.  Dr. Maria Root has been writing about the Mixed
Race Experience for a long time.  Below is an example.  Surf to her
website for more information at

http://www.drmariaroot.com/

There are many resources, workshops, books, and a few conferences on
this topic.  Contact me outside of this listserv if you want to learn
more.

Anselmo

Anselmo Villanueva, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Community Alliance of Lane County
458 Blair Boulevard
Eugene, Oregon 97402-4511
Tel: 541.485.1755 x202
Fax: 541.485.0257
E-mail: anselmo.villanueva at gmail.com

CALC: Educating and mobilizing for peace, human dignity and social,
racial, and economic justice for over 40 years

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Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage

I HAVE THE RIGHT...

Not to justify my existence in this world.
Not to keep the races separate within me.
Not to justify my ethnic legitimacy.
Not to be responsible for people's discomfort with my physical or
ethnic ambiguity.

I HAVE THE RIGHT...

To identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify.
To identify myself differently than how my parents identify me.
To identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters.
To identify myself differently in different situations.

I HAVE THE RIGHT...

To create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial or multiethnic.
To change my identity over my lifetime--and more than once.
To have loyalties and identification with more than one group of people.
To freely choose whom I befriend and love.

(c) Maria P. P. Root, PhD, 1993, 1994