Mixed American Life

Known as: Rapper (Member of rap group “Bone Thugs-n-Harmony”)

Music Videos: Tha Crossroads, 1st of tha Month, Look Into My Eyes, I Tried

Born in 1834, William P. Powell was the son of a free black man and a Native American mother in Bedford, MA. Powell, Sr. was a vocal abolitionist and helped house black seamen as well as fugitive slaves.

Born in 1802 near Duluth, MN, George Bonga was the son of an African-American father and Ojibwe mother. Bonga attended school in Montreal and spoke English, French and Ojibwe fluently. He was quoted as saying that he was the "first...

Billy Bowlegs III was born in 1862. His father was African-American and his mother was Seminole. He took the name Billy Bowlegs as an adult after the great Seminole chief who led his people through the Seminole Wars.

Known as: TV & Film Actress

TV: “The Secret Circle”, “Smallville”, “Valemont”, “90210”, “Soul”, “Kaya”, “Undercovers”

Movies: “50/50”, “In Time”, “Karma, Inc.”

The last Census showed 9 million people, about 3 percent of the population, reporting more than one race. That's an increase of one-third from the decade before — and that number is only going up.

The MSNBC talk show host and college professor has a white mother and a black father, though she self-identifies as black.

Known as: Professional Soccer Player (Plays for SV Waldhof Mannheim & The Canadian National team; Previously played for Preußen Münster, Eintracht Rheine, FC Schalke 04 II & Fortuna Düsseldorf II)

Known as: Model & Actress (Modeled for/in Lancome, Chanel, Versace, YSL, Baby Phat, Hugo Boss, Fendi, Tiffanys, Levi’s; Sister of DJ/Producer Steve Aoki)

Movies: “Sin City”, “2 Fast 2 Furious”, “War”, “D.E.B.S.”, “DOA: Dead or Alive”, “Mutant Chronicles”

Known as: Patent Attorney & Model (Winner of Bravo TV’s “Manhunt: The Search For America’s Most Gorgeous Male Model” series; Modeled for Abercrombie and Fitch, Ed Hardy, OCBC Bank, V, Men’s Health, Urban, Female, and Catalogue)

The actress (“Golden Boy,” “House”) has a Cuban mother and a father who is of Italian and French descent, was born inBogotá, Colombia and raised in Nicaragua.

Known as: TV & Film Actress

Movies: “Alex Cross”, “Salt”, “Imagine That”, “Butter”, “Unthinkable”

TV: “The First Family”, “In The Motherhood”, “Family Guy”, “Lie to Me”, “Wizards of Waverly Place”, “Entourage”, “Cold Case”

Known as: Environmental Activist, Speaker, Television Host and Author (Known as “The Girl Who Silenced The World for 5 minutes” for her speech, at the age of 12, to the UN Rio Earth Summit in 1992)

Speeches/Videos: The Girl Who Silenced the World / 20th Anniversary,Severn Suzuki’s speech at the University of British Columbia, RARE: Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Rapper Kid Cudi, whose real name is Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi, has a Mexican father and an African-American mother.

Kayte Grace is a refreshing American Phenomenon. Her music videos show her singing about attraction to white men - without hesitation, pretense or apology. She brings a refreshing hope to the U.S, ...

Jim Thorpe (aka Bright Path) was born May 28, 1888. His father was of Irish and Sac and Fox Indian descent. His mother was French and Native American. Thorpe was raised as Sac and Fox in Oklahoma. Thorpe--who had a...

Known as: Professional Basketball Player (Starting Center for the NBA’s Chicago Bulls; Son of French singer and former professional tennis playerYannick Noah)

Awards/Accolades: NBA 2013 All-Star; NBA 2013 All-Defensive First Team; NBA 2011 All-Defensive Second Team

Formula 1 driver, Lewis Hamilton (Mclaren Mercedes team, ok I am a huge F1 fan and Hamilton is my favorite) has been romantically linked to singer Nicole Sherzinger for some time now. Both are actually mixed. The British Hamilton’s Mom is white and father is black and Sherzinger has a Filipino father and a mother who is half Hawai’in and half Russian.

Known as: Grammy nominated Rapper & Songwriter

Music Videos: Money, Feel It, Stand Up

Known as: Professional Baseball Player (Starting Pitcher for the Minnesota Twins; Previously played for the Philadelphia Phillies)

Known as: TV & Film Actress

TV: “Sunset Beach”, “Rescue Me”, “The Fosters”, “One Life to Live”, “In Treatment”, “Beggars and Choosers”, “Gossip Girl”, “Heroes”, “CSI:NY”, “CSI:Miami”

Movies: “Ten Stories Tall”, “Finding Home”

By Germanic I mean anyone whose native language belongs to the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages: most Germans, Dutch, English, Danes, Australians, Americans, etc. They live mainly in nort...

Solomon Northup was born free circa 1808 to a father who was a freeman of color and a mother who he would describe as a "quadroon". In 1829, Northup married a mixed-race woman with whom he had three children.

Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, also known as Zitkala-Sa or Red Bird, was born in 1876 to a full-blooded Sioux woman and a white man. She struggled with her mixed-race heritage as a chid on the reservation as well as off.