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The Lived Experience of Bi-Racial People

Lise Funderburg is a journalist who has written for "Mirabella" and "New York Newsday." She is bi-racial, and recently wrote a book called "Black, White, Other," which explores the identities of Americans from racially mixed families. Do they consider themselves white, black, neither, or both? On the show with Funderburg are two other people whose interviews are featured in the book.

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Fresh Air with Terry Gross, July 6, 1994: Interview with Lise Funderburg, Debo Adegbile, and Zenobia Kujichagulia; Interview with Fred Lager; Commentary on computer language in the 1990s.
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A Vermont's Ice Cream Company's Attempt to Live Up to It's 1960s Values

Fred "Chico" Lager, former CEO of the Ben & Jerry's ice cream company. He joined the company in 1982, and together with Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, built the company from a small ice cream parlor to a $100 million publicly held company. Lager just wrote a book, "Ben & Jerry's: The Inside Scoop" about his experiences building a successful business while upholding the founders' original philosophy of business as a catalyst for social change.

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