The October issue of National Geographic has a feature article on racial identity for multiracial Americans: The Changing Face of America.  Here’s an excerpt:

When people ask Celeste Seda, 26, what she is, she likes to let them guess before she explains her Dominican-Korean background. She points out that even then she has revealed only a fraction of her identity, which includes a Long Island childhood, a Puerto Rican adoptive family, an African-American sister, and a nascent acting career. The attention she gets for her unusual looks can be both flattering and exhausting. “It’s a gift and a curse,” Seda says.

While you’re there, visit the “interactive gallery” (to the left of the article) that illustrates how multiracial people identify themselves and which boxes they checked on the U.S. census.

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