Multiracial people constitute the fastest-growing racial category in the United States. Paul Spickard, professor of history, Asian American studies, and religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will discuss 鈥淲hat Are You? Multiracial People Negotiating the Identity Issue鈥� at a free lecture Friday, Jan. 11, at 3:30 p.m. in Kerrwood Hall鈥檚 Hieronymus Lounge. Refreshments will be served at 3:15 p.m.
Spickard will discuss how multiracial people represent a change in America鈥檚 racial system and the issues surrounding the lives of people who possess multiple racial heritages and identities.
The lecture, sponsored by 蜜桃传媒 intercultural programs office, is free and open to the public.
Spickard, who received his doctorate in history at UC Berkeley, has authored several books including 鈥淢ixed Blood: Intermarriage and Ethnic Identity in Twentieth-Century America鈥� and recently co-authored 鈥淩evealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America.鈥�