Mixed Race Individuals: A Solution for Race Relations in America?

Have you or any of your friends who identify as mixed-race ever felt that there are challenges in developing an individual identity that is different than those people you know who identify themselves as a single race? Do you think that the general population in the United States thinks about mixed-race individuals in the same manner as they view single race people in terms of social matters such as friendship and marriage? Are public policy laws designed to prevent discrimination in the public sphere applied equally to mixed race people? This paper explores these and other issues regarding the different experience of mixed race individuals navigating life in the society of the United States of America.