Sentence examples for multiracial background from inspiring English sources
With his multiracial background and superb talent, Zidane was the very emblem of this new France.
And then there's what we call the transcultural consumer," with a multiethnic or multiracial background.
Without him, it may in time go a different way, more reflective of its multiracial background and potentially precarious existence.
We hear about Jones's multiracial background, his first gay love affair, and how he started to make art.
President Obama is a non-extreme liberal whose multiracial background echoes a party welcoming to moderates and a growing diverse population.
Coming from a multiracial background (her mother, who died when Ms. Rudolph was 6, was black, and her father is white), Ms. Rudolph was the obvious candidate when an "SNL" skit called for Condoleezza Rice or Michelle Obama.
It is anticipated that this multiracial population will increase to around 21% of the general population by the year 2050 (Smith & Edmonston, 1997), demonstrating how important it is for people in today's society and in research to begin focusing on not only how people from multiracial backgrounds develop and feel, but how others perceive them as well.
With her multiracial, multiethnic background, Jones has a unique ability to engage with a staggering array of people (young and old, male and female, conservative and liberal, white and non-white) and to bring them to the stage in performances that are mixes of interview and invention, what she calls, "doing a vertical plunge into another person's experience".
So using those of multiracial or multiethnic backgrounds as absolute evidence for social progress can be dangerous, Chang believes.
When the conceptual artist Adrian Piper, whose background is multiracial, drew a picture titled "Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features" (1981), or in a video piece reminded her white American viewers that they all very likely have Negro blood, she was not only offering plausible genetic information, but also identifying race itself as a social creation, a matter of perception.
Four years later, in a country strongly turning against the Texas swagger and go-it-alone hubris ofGeorge W. Bush, Obama's multiracial parentage and cross-cultural background was powerfully appealing — the perennial hope of a chance to start anew.
