Mixed Racial Identity in America

Tiger Woods. Barack Obama. Mariah Carey. As American society becomes more diverse, and children from mixed racial backgrounds grow up to become household names, a tug of war seems to exist for possession of their racial identity. Why is identifying culturally with these modern-day superstars so important to Black America, and what, if anything, really makes a mixed-race individual black? Finally, are we ever going to get to a point where we can see a person and not a race? In other news, if t