Loving Prize
The Loving Prize, established in 2008, is awarded annually to outstanding artists, storytellers and community leaders for inspirational dedication to celebrating and illuminating the Mixed racial and cultural experience. The 2010 Loving Prize winners will be announced in February!
Past recipients:
2008
Kip Fulbeck
Kip Fulbeck is recognized as one of the world’s premier artists exploring Hapa identity through art, film, literature and spoken word. His popular books (Part Asian, 100% Hapa; and Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography) and short films (Banana Split) speak to and inspire a You Tube generation to political involvement. Kip has been featured on CNN, MTV, and PBS, and has performed and exhibited in more than 20 countries. He is a Professor of Art and an affiliate faculty in Asian American Studies and Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and is a nationally-ranked masters swimmer and ocean lifeguard. His current book is titled Permanence: Tattoo Portraits by Kip Fulbeck published by Chronicle Books.
James McBride
James McBride’s memoirThe Color of Water, (Riverhead, Penguin Books) is an American classic, and is required reading in high schools and colleges across America. It has sold almost two million copies worldwide, spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list and is published in more than 16 languages. It is a perennial favorite of book clubs and community-wide reading events, including New York City and Philadelphia. It is the story of his widowed, white, Jewish mother who raised 12 black children in New York City and sent all to college and most to graduate school. His newest novel, Song Yet Sung, (Riverhead, Penguin Books, Feb. 2008,) is the highly charged story of an escaped female runaway slave in 1850, who desperately eludes a skilled slave catcher through the treacherous swamps of Maryland’s eastern shore. He holds several honorary doctorates and is currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University. He is married with three children. He lives in Pennsylvania and New York.
2009
Angela Nissel
Angela Nissel is author of the national best-selling comedic memoirs The Broke Diaries and Mixed. She is a co-executive producer and writer for NBC’s medical sitcom Scrubs and executive producer of an in-development television project with Halle Berry and Vincent Cirricionne. Nissel has spent seven seasons on the show, Scrubs, as a writer and, most recently, co-executive producer.
Maria P. P. Root
Dr. Maria P. P. Root, born in Manila, Philippines, grew up in Los Angeles, CA. She graduated from the University of California at Riverside with degrees in Psychology and Sociology and received a Master’s degree in Cognitive Psychology from Claremont University and received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington. Dr. Root published the first contemporary volume on mixed race people, Racially Mixed People in America (1992). She has edited two award-winning books on multiracial people and produced the foundational Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People. The U.S. Census referred to these texts in their deliberations that resulted in an historic ‘check more than one’ format to the race question for the 2000 census.
