Cheerios and Controversy: The Changing Face of America’s Multiracial Children and Families

By Laurie “Lali” McCubbin, PhD (Member, APA Committee on Children, Youth, and Families) A recent Cheerios commercial of a multiracial family with a biracial child caused quite a stir in the media.  When presented with images of racially ambiguous faces and multiracial families, many people responded with a range of feelings from celebration, unease to […]