This directory was originally compiled by one of our members (Tatsu Yamato) in February and March of 1998 as part of the research for a book, edited by Ms. Pearl Gaskins, about mixed-race teenagers and young adults (tentatively) titled What Are You? The final published directory promises to be even more extensive. If you maintain or know of a site not listed here that you feel would be appropriate to include, please write to us at smhac@unix.amherst.edu.

Association of MultiEthnic Americans (www.ameasite.org) - The Association of MultiEthnic Americans is a nationwide confederation of local multiethnic/interracial groups, incorporated as a nonprofit public benefit organization. AMEA was founded in November of 1988 by representatives of local multiethnic/ multiracial organizations from across the United States.  Members of local groups come from all walks of life and include people from many racial/ethnic backrounds and mixtures. AMEA is a secular, non-denominational organization open to people of all faiths...AMEA's primary goal is to promote a positive awareness of interracial and multiethnic identity, for ourselves and for society as a whole...

Check One (dolphin.upenn.edu/~checkone) - Check One is an affinity group for students of mixed heritage put together by our friends down at the University of Pennsylvania. A great bunch of folks, Check One engages in regular exchange with us here at SMHAC and, like us, they are very interested in hooking up with other mixed heritage affinity groups on the East Coast.

Famlee Homepage (www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~thompson/famlee/home.html) - A group of over 100 members celebrating multiculturalism and multiraciality.

Hapa Issues Forum (www.wenet.net/~hapa) - Based out the University of California at Berkeley, HIF is one of the largest and best organized groups dealing with issues of mixed heritage. An excellent model for fledgling mixed race affinity groups.

Hapas in the Bay Area(www.webwind.com/hapa/Resources.html#Personal HomePages) - We are a group of people, mixed-race, Asian-Pacific families, couples, and individuals in the San Jose - Bay Area (California) that have found that in the coupling of our Asian and non-Asian cultures, there are challenges and issues (along with a lot of fun and joy!). Issues arise in communications, traditions, acceptance by others, childrearing, identity development of children, etc.

International Interracial Association (icg.stwing.upenn.edu/~konrad/iia.html) - The International Interracial Association (IIA) was founded in June 1995 by Konrad Hernblad, with the support of three other individuals. They all met over the Internet from places as diverse as Taiwan, Australia, Hong Kong, and the United States to form an organization with the aim of promoting racial and cultural harmony worldwide. The association is open to all who have an interest in improving racial and cultural unity through supportive discussion of: interracial/cultural individuals, individuals who are involved in an interracial/cultural relationship, parents who have adopted interracially/culturally, those who simply have an interest in interracial/cultural issues Given the increase of interracial/cultural marriages and births worldwide, we plan to translate the home page into many different languages so as to maintain an international scope and to reach as many people as possible.

The website currently features: a calendar of events worldwide, a discussion forum, a listing of contributing members, extensive resources, success stories, and a 'what's new' section to keep you informed of our latest developments.

Objectives

• To help unite people of the world through positive interracial/cultural experiences.
• To foster the understanding, growth, and greater awareness of interracial/cultural individuals, couples, and parents.
• To provide support to interracial individuals, couples, and parents.
• To become internationally recognized as the primary source for information on interracial issues.
• To establish and maintain the world's first interracial database for statistical and research purposes.

Los Angeles Asian Pacific Islander Sisters (LAAPIS) (www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/8878) - Los Angeles Asian Pacific Islander Sisters (LAAPIS) seeks to provide an environment of advocacy, support, and affirmation for API/mixed heritage women, including male-to-female transgenders, who identify as lesbian, bisexual, queer, gay or women loving women.

Includes information about upcoming events, community resources, and a chatroom.

My Shoes (myshoes.com) - a support group in cyberspace hosted by clinical psychologist Dr. Juanita Brooks for biracial/multiracial children, adolescents and adults who have a white appearance.

• My Shoes was created for the biracial individual who has a white appearance and wishes to interact with others of similar heritage.My Shoes is for you if you are biracial with a white appearance and have ever wished that you could share your unique thoughts andfeelings with others who could more easily identify with them.
• My Shoes is for you if you have ever believed that only another biracial person with a white appearance could fully understand some ofyour personal dilemmas.
• My Shoes is for you if you have ever felt isolated and just wanted to meet other individuals like yourself.
• There are two support groups that you can join. One is for youth through high school age and the other is for adults. Although these groups are similar, age separation will allow the members of each group to better identify with each other. However, no one is restricted from participating in either group.

Tokyo Hapa Club (www.twics.com/~williams/hapa.html) - Founded in 1993, THC states it primary mission is: ...to provide an outlet to those with common backgrounds and interests, the opportunity to make friends with other half-Japanese (or half Asian) people and those brought up in a bicultural environment. Additionally, we want to support those who may need a friend and those who may be uncomfortable due to various reasons about their identity.

If you find yourself in the Tokyo area needing some inroads into community, look no further. Regular programming includes the monthly brunch meetings at the Salty Box Grill in Roppongi, the monthly HC pub night, Hapa-no Kuni (a big bro/sis like program), and various other events ranging from guest speakers to bowling nights to climbing Mt. Fuji.

The Census

The Multiracial Activist (www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/5006) - This site is dedicated to the struggle for governmental and social recognition of multiracial individuals.

Well maintained links to coverage of mixed race issues by mainstream media, essays, letters, and various other materials.

Project Race (www.projectrace.mindspring.com) - "The national organization leading the movement for a multiracial classification."

Project RACE advocates for multiracial children and adults through education, community awareness and legislation. Our main goal is for a multiracial classification on all school, employment, state, federal, local, census and medical forms requiring racial data.

related articles

America's Multiracial Children. by Kimberly A. Crafton. (www.jumpstartmich.com/multi.html)

U.S. News 4/8/96: Multiracial Americans seek full recognition - Don't you dare list them as `other'Multiracial Americans seek full recognition. (www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/birace.htm)

Right Now - The Multiracial Option (www.harvard-magazine.com/mj97/right.multi.html)

LatinoLink: Multiracial Americans Ready to Claim Their Identity (www.latino.com/life/0721lmul.htm)

Online NewsHour: "Multiracial" Census Category -- July 16, 1997 - NOT AN "OTHER" JULY 16, 1997. TRANSCRIPT (www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fedagencies/july-dec97)

Multiracial category raises suspicions. By Gregory Kane. (www.sunspot.net/columnists/data/kane/071397kane.html)

Speaker Gingrich Endorses Multiracial Census Category (speakernews.house.gov/census.htm)

Amerasian Advocacy

Amerasian Network (www.tcbs.com/aan/)- Amerasian Network, Inc. is an official non-profit organization recognized by the State of California which operates in Vietnam to benefit Amerasians and other displaced young people in four areas:

• Education
• Health
• Orphans
• Amerasian Migration and Culture

The Filipino American Movement for Amerasian Services (www.famas.org/famas.htm) - World War I. World War II. Korean War. Vietnam War. Asia, as other parts of the world, felt and suffered the pain of these wars - men, women and children alike. Hundreds of thousands of Amerasian children were born because of these conditions, fathered by U.S. servicemen due to their presence in Asian military bases. Most were left behind by the fathers in their mothers' homelands-some abandoned by their mothers as well. The children from Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and Korea were later allowed U.S. entry and immigration through Public Law 97-359. Those fathered by servicemen from U.S. military bases in Japan and Philippines were not granted the same right. There are about 50,000 Filipino Amerasian children in Philippines (this only including those born between 1987-1992) ... hoping to be given what others of their same condition were granted - the birthright and recognition of their American identity.

These pages are to promote and aid the Filipino American Movement for Amerasian Services (FAMAS) in reuniting these children with their fathers, and in supporting the passage of Senate Bill 111, introduced by Senator Dan Inouye (D-Hawaii) to amend PL 97-359. This bill would allow the U.S. entry and immigration of these children.

The LAM: Caring for the Hearts of Amerasian Children of Wars (www.erols.com/thelam) - The Lam was founded in 1997 as an advocacy organization to promote human value internationally. The Lam's first mission is to bring solace to, advocate for, and educate the public on behalf of the Amerasian Children of War internationally.

related articles

Vietnamerica (www.vietnamerica.com)- Page with excerpts and photos from the bookVietnamerica.

This book is about the Vietnam War coming home, not in the form of body bags or POWs, but as children with half-American faces searching for their fathers. In 1988, after passage of the Amerasian Homecoming Act, the United States began airlifting the natural children of American soldiers out of Vietnam. This was thirteen years after the war officially ended. Known as bui doi, children of dust, abandoned by their fathers, often homeless and illiterate, these Amerasian kids suddenly found themselves transported into America's inner cities. Here they became the wards of refugee agencies that clothed and fed them. Vietnamerica is the story of two cultures colliding -- not in war, but peace -- as the children of America's Vietnam veterans fight their own battle for a decent "homecoming." It is also the story of the thousands of Amerasians who remain in Vietnam, some by choice, others against their will.

"Social Adaptation Problems Among Amerasian Refugees" (midb.ippsr.msu.edu/mullan/bpmmgr03main.html) -

Interracial Couples and Family Groups

Interrace Haven (www.eden.com/~crusader/aboutirh.html) - Welcome to Interrace Haven! My name is Allen Steadham. I created this site to be a source of information, resources, and ultimately support for people who:

• Are in an INTERRACIAL RELATIONSHIP (People of at least two different races who are married or dating/engaged)
• Are BIRACIAL(an individual whose parents are of two different races) or MULTIRACIAL (an individual who has at least one biracial parent or more than two races in their genetic history).
• Are the parent(s) of a biracial or multiracial individual(s)
• Are the grandparent(s) of a biracial or multiracial individual(s)
• Are interested in being supportive to the one or all of the above!

Includes picture gallery of interracial couples, chat room, and links to various related sites.

INTERracial (www.twsonline.com/INTERracial) - INTERracial is a positive and supportive presence for the interracial/intercultural community. With this country's current and seemingly neverending state of race relations, and with Clinton's current race initiatives, this site represents one such timely effort to bring about acceptance of and offer support for interracial/intercultural couples and biracial/multicultural children in a society so obsessed with "race."

Various articles, chat forums. Interesting in that this is a site actively trying to make more mixed folks. Online dating service?!

Interracial Family and Social Alliance (www.flash.net/~mata9/ifsa.htm) -The Interracial Family & Social Alliance of Dallas/Ft. Worth (IFSA) is currently North Texas' only support and social group serving interracial families and couples. This non-profit organization has been in existence since 1989. Our mission is to affirm the dignity and equality of every racial group through education; to support and serve the interracial unit; and to strengthen the bonds among groups in our multi-ethnic society through community outreach. " IFSA has ongoing activities to raise its visibility within the local and state communities. A monthly newsletter keeps the membership informed and quarterly board meetings address specific issues.  Our primary activity is our monthly general meetings. A typical meeting consists of a speaker and/or discussion with a topic and moderator. We have had a diverse number of speakers on topics ranging from art appreciation to crime prevention, as well as interrace-related topics. In addition, we sponsor children's programs, social activities and community projects. IFSA also maintains a catalog and media library of articles on pertinent topics ranging from dealing with prejudice to filling out school and census forms.

Interracial Family Network of Seattle-King County (www.isomedia.com/homes/duncan/interracial.html) - The Interracial Family Network of Seattle-King County is an organization formed to support interracial families and their children. We offer an assortment of family, community and internet resources. We are privately-formed organization not affiliated with any government, agency or business. We are people making a difference. We support your choice to live your life without reference to the color of another's skin but based upon the content of their character. We support interracial families.

Unlimited Love (hem1.passagen.se/frontrun/index.html) - A site dedicated primarily to the celebration of interracial couples. Includes stories of children of interracial couples and a small directory of interracial celebrities.

The Amerasian Page (www.cs.uah.edu/cs/students/dkrum/amerasia/about.html) - includes terminology list, feedback archives, links to Amerasian focused articles and organizations, and listings of famous Amerasian people ( page maintained by David Michael Krum).

Bi-Racial Identity (www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/1103) - Miscellaneous information on issues of mixed identity.

Interracial Voice (www.webcom.com/intvoice) - published every other month as an independent, information-oriented, networking newsjournal serving the mixed-race/interracial community in cyberspace. This electronic publication advocates universal recognition of mixed-race individuals as constituting a separate "racial" entity and wholeheartedly supported the initiative to establish a multiracial category on the 2000 Census.

Includes a large collection of articles, essays, and poems by various authors, postings of mixed race events around the country, and links to other mixed resources.

MAVIN (www.geocities.com/SoHo/Coffeehouse/6858/mavin01b.html) - "The articulate journal of the mixed race experience."

MAVIN is a quarterly print journal dedicated to the celebration of the mixed race experience in America. MAVIN's mission is to create a pan-collegiate voice and to provide financial and logistical support to encourage mixed race student organizations across the country. MAVIN is an inclusive journal that advances increased awareness and recognizes