February 4th, 2017

The world is more disconnected than ever. Unwarranted biases aimed at people's race and culture are hurting everything from people's feelings to corporate profits. Here at Mixed Bowl, I connect with my communities to bring awareness to these issues. By simply sharing an experience that is universally enjoyable, eating ice cream, I am able to hear the stories about race and culture that have previously been untold.

The idea is simple, I ask someone to sit down and have a conversation with me over a bowl of ice cream, and we discuss that person’s relationship with their race and culture. Just like types of ice cream, the people and topics introduced range wide, hence, the name, Mixed Bowl. Explore the website to discover the power of conversation.

Paxton Hall - Creator of Mixed Bowl

View fullsize Check out Mixed Bowl at the USC Undergraduate Symposium! The booth will be open today only from 11am - 2pm at room 352 of Tutor Campus Center (TCC) on USC's campus. Books will be available to buy. For those of you not on campus, you can buy the book
View fullsize "I'm from Venezuela, from Caracas, the capital. You basically live in a cage. My parents in Caracas create these walls trying to protect you, but at the same time these walls keep you from living a normal life. There are many things you guys wou
View fullsize "I'm from Hong Kong, but, you see, I'm not exactly originated from China, I'm more of a third-culture kid. That's what they're called these days. Basically, they're people whose parents come from a different country who migrate to another differ
View fullsize "The capacity to listen... this is something that you might take for granted, but most people don't know how to listen. More often than not you talk to somebody and you realize that in the meantime, this person is thinking of the next argument t
View fullsize "I come from a country in Eastern Africa called Kenya. We have this phrase that's quite common in the language. I think everybody knows Swahili by now, at least if they have watched the Lion King. There's this wonderful phrase that says, 'Hakuna
View fullsize On Syrian Refugee Crisis: "I think it is also a huge problem and I think that we as a country should help, but not in the way that we are helping now. Because in Portugal they are offering houses, jobs, and everything to these families and we ha
View fullsize “I’m from Porto, Portugal… in my master’s program we received an exchange student from Namibia. All of the classes beforehand were in Portuguese, but because of her they were given in English, so everyone could understand and
View fullsize What are your first thoughts when someone says, "What are you Meghan?" "I would say, 'What are you?!'... I'm a very sarcastic person so I would probably be like, 'A human being... a person.' Then I would be like, 'Just kidding, I'm bla
View fullsize "I'm not sure if you're familiar with the singer Azealia Banks, but she came out with this song, and I believe I was in 10th grade going to 11th grade, and it's called Liquorice. And it was the first time I ever saw a dark-skinned, brown-skinned
View fullsize "My parents both worked so we had a nanny that lived with us. So I kind of grew up with three parents... A lot of white people were never conscious of race, but I've been conscious of race. My friends all thought my mom was black basically, beca
View fullsize “In the United States I feel that I’m too Mexican to be American and too American to be Mexican... I’m from Nacozari, it’s about two and a half hours south of the border and my family moved to the U.S. when I was 3 years old.
View fullsize "Self-segregation. That's my favorite concept that I learned in college that has just a lot of meaning to me. We're not being forced into these different groups... it's more like the structure of USC makes you feel as if you have to fit into one
View fullsize "My roommate is black and he's my best friend now... from Nigeria and Atlanta. He opened my eyes to how little of a thing race should be. He and I will talk about it sometimes, how we both find it really stupid what race determines people."
View fullsize "I’m in a frat and one of the things I notice is that gangs and frats are very similar. And the reason being is that both are territorial. They believe in brotherhood. They have a certain set of initiations. But the difference is that gang
View fullsize "My family has always encouraged me to keep in touch with my roots. They would even send me to Mexico every summer for summer school at a random school in a different city every year just so I wouldn't forget my Spanish... It has definitely been
View fullsize "If you're not welcome in one group, then of course you're going to surround yourself with the others that were unwelcome as well. People want to be surrounded by others that share their same experience. It's going back to basic human tendencies
View fullsize "Sexism is frustrating. Racism is dangerous." Visit www.mixedbowl.com to listen to the podcast, buy the book, and keep up with everything else Mixed Bowl related!
View fullsize "It's like a game... Guess Lindsey's Race. And so far no one has ever won." Visit www.mixedbowl.com to listen to the podcast, buy the book, and keep up with everything else Mixed Bowl related!
View fullsize "I identify with Armenian culture, but I don't let it consume me." Visit www.mixedbowl.com to listen to the podcast, buy the book, and keep up with everything else Mixed Bowl related!
View fullsize "If I didn't have the genes that I did while developing in the environment that I did, my soul would be different. I'll never forget the times when my family takes pictures and people say, 'That's a beautiful family.'" Visit www.mixedbowl.c
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