Adia
Half White (English), Half African (Mchaga from Tanzania)
Photographed in Long Beach, California
Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America
"In 1980 I was white (at under a year old I had no real pigment yet, so my mother figured in race, like religion, you are what your mother is), in 1990 I was black, and in 2000 thanks to a lot of lobbying I was finally me: mixed."