Author: Monique Fields
Publisher: Imprint
ISBN: 1250115825
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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A young biracial girl looks around her world for her color. She finally chooses her own, and creates a new word for herself—honeysmoke. Simone wants a color. She asks Mama, “Am I black or white?” “Boo,” Mama says, just like mamas do, “a color is just a word.” She asks Daddy, “Am I black or white?” “Well,” Daddy says, just like daddies do, “you’re a little bit of both.” For multiracial children, and all children everywhere, this picture book offers a universal message that empowers young people to create their own self-identity. Simone knows her color—she is honeysmoke. An Imprint Book "This will appeal to so many biracial kids looking for a way to embrace every part of themselves." —NBCNews.com "A terrific addition to the WeNeedDiverseBooks canon, where it joins such books as Selina Alko's I’m Your Peanut Butter Big Brother and Taye Diggs' Mixed Me!." —Booklist
Author: Nancy Thalia Reynolds
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810867109
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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Mixed-heritage people are one of the fastest-growing groups in the United States, yet culturally they have been largely invisible, especially in young adult literature. Mixed Heritage in Young Adult Literature is a critical exploration of how mixed-heritage characters (those of mixed race, ethnicity, religion, and/or adoption) and real-life people have been portrayed in young adult fiction and nonfiction. This is the first in-depth, broad-scope critical exploration of this subgenre of multicultural literature. Following an introduction to the topic, author Nancy Thalia Reynolds examines the portrayal of mixed-heritage characters in literary classics by James Fenimore Cooper, Mark Twain, and Zora Neale Hurston—staples of today's high school English curriculum—along with other important authors. It opens up the discussion of young-adult racial and ethnic identity in literature to recognize—and focus on—those whose heritage straddles boundaries. In this book teachers will find new tools to approach race, ethnicity, and family heritage in literature and in the classroom. This book also helps librarians find new criteria with which to evaluate young adult fiction and nonfiction with mixed-heritage characters.
Author: Chandra Crane
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830848061
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 229
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Chandra Crane has keenly felt the otherness of having a mixed multiethnic and multicultural background. But those of us with a mixed heritage have the privilege and potential to serve the Lord through our unique experiences. Crane explores what Scripture and history teach us about ethnicity and how we can bring all of ourselves to our sense of identity and calling.
Author: Natalie Morris
Publisher: Trapeze
ISBN: 1409197166
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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How does it feel when your heritage isn't listed as an option on an identification form? What is it like to grow up as the only person in your family who looks like you? Where do you belong if you are simultaneously seen as being 'too much' of one race and 'not enough' of another to fit neatly into society's expectations? 'A rare find' - Loyle Carner The mixed population is the fastest-growing group in the U.K. today, but the mainstream conversation around mixedness is stilted, repetitive and often problematic. At a time when ethnically ambiguous models fill our Instagram feeds and our high street shop windows, and when children of interracial relationships are lauded as heralding in the dawn of a post-racial utopia, journalist Natalie Morris takes a deep dive into what it really means to be mixed in Britain today. From blackfishing to the fetishisation of mixed babies; from the complexities of passing and code-switching to navigating the world of work and dating, Natalie explores the ways in which all of these issues uniquely impact those of mixed heritage. Drawing from a wealth of research, interviews and her own personal experiences, in Mixed/Other, Natalie's aims to dismantle the stereotypes that have plagued mixed people for generations and to amplify the voices of mixed Britons today, shining a light on the struggles and the joys that come with being mixed.
Author: Ralina L. Joseph
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807779555
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 193
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Grounded in the life experiences of children, youth, teachers, and caregivers, this book investigates how implicit bias affects multiracial kids in unforeseen ways. Drawing on critical mixed-race theory and developmental psychology, the authors employ radical listening to examine both how these children experience school and what schools can do to create more welcoming learning environments. They examine how the silencing of mixed-race experiences often creates a barrier to engaging in nuanced conversations about race and identity in the classroom, and how teachers are finding powerful ways to forge meaningful connections with their mixed-race students. This is a book written from the inside, integrating not only theory and research but also the authors’ own experiences negotiating race and racism for and with their mixed-race children. It is a timely and essential read not only because of our nation’s changing demographics, but also because of our racially hostile political climate. Book Features: Examination of the most contemporary issues that impact mixed-race children and youth, including the racialized violence with which our country is now reckoning.Guided exercises with relevant, action-oriented information for educators, parents, and caregivers in every chapter.Engaging storytelling that brings the school worlds of mixed-race children and youth to life.Interdisciplinary scholarship from social and developmental psychology, critical mixed-race studies, and education. Expansion of the typical Black/White binary to include mixed-race children from Asian American, Latinx, and Native American backgrounds.
Author: Zarine L. Rocha
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030228746
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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This handbook provides a global study of the classification of mixed race and ethnicity at the state level, bringing together a diverse range of country case studies from around the world. The classification of race and ethnicity by the state is a common way to organize and make sense of populations in many countries, from the national census and birth and death records, to identity cards and household surveys. As populations have grown, diversified, and become increasingly transnational and mobile, single and mutually exclusive categories struggle to adequately capture the complexity of identities and heritages in multicultural societies. State motivations for classification vary widely, and have shifted over time, ranging from subjugation and exclusion to remediation and addressing inequalities. The chapters in this handbook illustrate how differing histories and contemporary realities have led states to count and classify mixedness in different ways, for different reasons. This collection will serve as a key reference point on the international classification of mixed race and ethnicity for students and scholars across sociology, ethnic and racial studies, and public policy, as well as policy makers and practitioners.
Author: Pearl Fuyo Gaskins
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 9780805099331
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and teenagers do not identify themselves as being just one race or another. Here is a book that allows these young people to speak in their own voices about their own lives. What Are You? is based on the interviews the author has made over the past two years with mixed-race young people around the country. These fresh voices explore issues and topics such as dating, families, and the double prejudice and double insight that come from being mixed, but not mixed-up.
Author: Floella Benjamin
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 9781847800343
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Alvina has two grannies who she loves with all her heart. Grannie Vero is from the Caribbean island of Trinidad. Grannie Rose is from the north of England. When Alvina's parents go away on holiday, both the grannies move in to Alvina's house to look after her. But the two grannies want to do different things, eat different food, play different games and tell different stories. The grannies get crosser and crosser with each other, but Alvina thinks of a way they can do all the things their own way so the grannies can become the best of friends.
Author: A. B. Wilkinson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146965900X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
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The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history by investigating how people of mixed African, European, and Native American heritage—commonly referred to as "Mulattoes," "Mustees," and "mixed bloods"—were integral to the construction of colonial racial ideologies. Thousands of mixed-heritage people appear in the records of English colonies, largely in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean, and this book provides a clear and compelling picture of their lives before the advent of the so-called one-drop rule. Wilkinson explores the ways mixed-heritage people viewed themselves and explains how they—along with their African and Indigenous American forebears—resisted the formation of a rigid racial order and fought for freedom in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century societies shaped by colonial labor and legal systems. As contemporary U.S. society continues to grapple with institutional racism rooted in a settler colonial past, this book illuminates the earliest ideas of racial mixture in British America well before the founding of the United States.
Author: Brandy Lien Worrall
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780978360795
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Completely Mixed Up is an anthology fifteen years in the making. The project started in 2000, with a trilogy of 700 handmade chapbooks. Over the years, the project has been presented all throughout North America, most notably in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, and New York. Seventy contributors offer over 150 works of visual art, writing, photography, and performance in this groundbreaking anthology, displaying creative expressions of what it means to be mixed race/mixed heritage Asian American and Canadian. CONTRIBUTORS: Ethelyn Abellanosa, artist and writer; Neil Aitken, award-winning poet; Kevin Minh Allen, poet; James Lawrence Ardena, artist and poet; Sandy Sue Benitez, poet; Tamiko Beyer, poet; Sumiko Braun, poet, filmmaker, performer; Leilani Chan, award-winning performer and playwright; Tricia Collins, actor and screenwriter; Wei Ming Dariotis, professor and poet; Melinda Luisa de Jesus, professor; Alison M. De La Cruz, performer and writer; Cheryl Deptowicz-Diaz, poet and lawyer; Lance Dougherty, poet; Andrea Duke, poet; Dr. Angela "El Dia" Martinez Dy, poet, writer, educator; Hillary LP Eason, writer; Sesshu Foster, award-winning writer; Margaret Gallagher, CBC radio personality and writer; Shamala Gallagher, writer; John Endo Greenaway, photographer and taiko performer; Hazel H. Hill, poet; Jason Kanjiro Howard, filmmaker; Catherine Irwin, poet; Michelle Tang Jackson, writer and performer; Sherlyn Jimenez, writer and poet; Dr. Peter Nien-chu Kiang, award-winning professor and poet; Daniel Takeshi Krause, writer; Noemi LaMotte Serrano, writer; Claire Light, writer; Marjorie Light, spoken word artist and DJ; Cassandra Love, award-winning poet; Pia Massie, award-winning multimedia artist; Kelty Miyoshi McKinnon, landscape architect and artist; Trina Mendiola Estanislao, poet and teacher; Rashaan Alexis Meneses, award-winning writer; Dorian Sanae Merina, award-winning poet, journalist, and educator; Shyamala Moorty, award-winning dancer and performer; Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu, professor, psychologist, and writer; Mark Nakada, writer and teacher; Lynda Nakashima, visual artist; Victoria Namkung, journalist, novelist, consultant; Debora O, writer and educator; Genevieve Erin O'Brien, award-winning performer and educator; Haruko Okano, interdisciplinary artist; Matthew Olzmann, award-winning poet; Giovanni Ortega, award-winning poet, performer, and playwright; Taro O'Sullivan, writer and journalist; Tony Osumi, poet, artist, and teacher; Stevii Paden, poet; Sandra Mizumoto Posey, professor, poet, and performer; Amal Rana, poet and educator; Mia Riverton, award-winning actress, writer, and producer; Tony Robles, poet; Freedom Allah Siyam, poet, educator, and organizer; Genaro Ky Ly Smith, award-winning writer; Michael Tora Speier, multimedia artist; Sebastian Speier, artist and graphic designer; Jeff Chiba Stearns, award-winning filmmaker, animator, and illustrator; Jason Sublette, writer and professor; Claire Tran, poet, lyricist, and dramatic writer; Julie Thi Underhill, photographer, filmmaker, writer, and performer; Alberto Vajrabukka, poet and performer; Lisa Valencia-Svensson, award-winning filmmaker and poet; Kieu Linh Caroline Valverde, professor and writer; Jane Voodikon, writer; Fred Wah, award-winning writer and poet; Chloe Worrall-Yu, writer and artist; Mylo Worrall-Yu, writer and artist; Anthony Yuen, writer"
