At least 7,000,000 Americans identify themselves as belonging to more than one race, and interest in issues of (1)____________________________. In his new book, "Mixed" writer and artist Kip Fulbeck presents a collection of portraits celebrating the faces of mixed-race children. 70 multi-racial children from across the United States are featured in "Mixed". To learn (2)____________________________, Fulbeck asked each one "who are you?"
"What's nice about the question 'Who are you?' is that kids, especially younger kids, they don't default to certain answers the way we as adults do. We may say 'I'm American.' 'I'm Chinese.' you may say 'I'm a banker.' 'I'm a teacher.' The kids have these unusual statements. They say things like,'I'm 12, guitar, video games, period, that's all what I do.' I had one kid who wrote a statement that said 'I'm Keyan. I'm brown like President Obama. One day I'll be a pro-football player and the president.'" It was exciting, he says, to discover (3)____________________________.
"There is one kid who has very bright red hair and very fair skin. And you look at his background, and he is Vietnamese and Mexican and Peruvian and Swiss and Irish. You would look at that kid and never imagine that. The dad said, 'Oftentimes, people ask, where did I get him? - like he is not really my kid because he has red hair.' which is really funny."
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