Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World
Routledge is pleased to present the first book on raising mixed race asian children
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In the last decade we have seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current 5-and-under age population being children of color. In the United States, Asian and multiracial are the fastest growing self-identified groups. More than 2 million people indicated being mixed race Asian on the 2010 Census. Yet despite surging numbers and living in a still highly racialized society, young multiracial Asian children are vastly underrepresented in writings on race. Why? And what are these children learning about themselves and others in an era that continues to see intense racial disparities like school resegregation, increasing income inequality, mass incarceration and growing protest like Black Lives Matter - but also an era that tries to be ahistorical, to convince itself the race problem has been “solved,” and that mixed race people are proof of it? So much is at stake here as the youngest of our next generation grow up. How will these children become, or not become, part of the ongoing effort to move our nation toward a truly egalitarian society? What will the future of the United States really look like? |
This book is drawn from extensive research and interviews with 68 parents of multiracial children. It is the first to examine the complex task of supporting our youngest around being “two or more races” and Asian while living amongst “post-racial” ideologies.
Reviews
“A must read for parents of mixed kids – Tremendous.”– Minelle Mahtani, author of Mixed Race Amnesia
“Sharon Chang has captured well for all readers… the gritty racial realties of being mixed-race in this country.” – Joe. R Feagin, author of Racist America
“If we are to capture the imagination and membership of our community’s next generational cohort, we must become fluent in nascent conversations on multiracial identity… Raising Mixed Race is undoubtedly set to become the benchmark tome on this subject…” – Pacific Citizen
About the author
Sharon H Chang worked with young children and families for over a decade as a teacher, administrator, advocate and parent educator. She is currently a writer, scholar and activist who focuses on racism, social justice and the Asian American diaspora with a feminist lens. Her pieces have appeared in BuzzFeed, ThinkProgress, Hyphen Magazine ParentMap Magazine, The Seattle Globalist, AAPI Voices and International Examiner. She also serves as a consultant for Families of Color Seattle and is on the planning committee for the Critical Mixed Race Studies Conference.
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