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"Parents were asked to describe their experiences raising multiracial children. Times have changed since he was growing up, Fulbeck notes. The census, for instance, now allows people to check off more than one box to describe their ethnic background. Even so, he still heard about students being taunted at school or mothers being asked, 'Are you the nanny?'"

Karen Wada in the Los Angeles Times interviews Kip Fulbeck about his exhibit, Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids, at the Japanese American National Museum.