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Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become. In the last decade, we have also seen a sudden massive shift in America’s racial makeup with the majority of the current under-5 age population being children of color. Asian and multiracial are the fastest growing self-identified groups in the United States. More than 2 million people indicated being mixed race Asian on the 2010 Census. Yet, young multiracial Asian children are vastly underrepresented in the literature on racial identity. Why? And what are these children learning about themselves in an era that tries to be ahistorical, believes the race problem has been “solved,” and that mixed race people are proof of it? This book is drawn from extensive research and interviews with sixty-eight 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.
- Sales Rank: #180595 in Books
- Published on: 2015-12-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x .60" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 280 pages
Review
"In one of the best field interview studies of multiracial issues yet to be done, Sharon Chang has captured well for all readers, whether social science experts or not, the gritty realities of being mixed-race in this country."― Joe R. Feagin, Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University, USA
"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..."― Ryan Kenji Kuramitsu, Pacific Citizen
"A must read for parents, teachers, students, and researchers of mixed race early childhood development, 'Raising Mixed Race' fills a critical void in literature on parenting and identity formation for multiracial Asian American children."― Laura Kina, Professor of Art, Media, & Design, DePaul University
"As a historian of racial mixing, I found the quality of Sharon H. Chang's research enviable. Most importantly, as a parent of a mixed, Asian child, I felt relief that such an empowering guidebook had arrived."― Greg Carter, Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
"The book is groundbreaking. I can’t say enough good things about it...even if you don’t have a mixed race kid yourself - we all have associations with mixed children in our lives in many different ways...We all have a responsibility to read this book."― Minelle Mahtani, Professor of Human Geography & Journalism, University of Toronto-Scarborough
"Raising Mixed Race is the book you’ll probably wish your parents had read... I hope that as many parents of racialized mixed-race children read this book as possible, so that future generations don’t have to wish their parents had."― Rema Tavares, www.mixedincanada.com
"Raising Mixed Race is a fundamental book for all multiracial families who seek to understand the unique perspectives and experiences their children have or will face." ― Maria Adcock, Bicultural Mama
"Though this book has a focus on multiracial Asian children, it is not just a book for parents of multiracial Asian children. It is a book for all children of color... [It] is for anyone who comes in contact with children in any way. This means if you are a teacher/educator, a child care worker, do research with children or on race and intersectionality…This book is for everyone." ― Chandra Crudup, Mixed Roots Stories
"Raising Mixed Race is in many ways empowering: the new vocabulary in the book has helped me talk about thoughts and feelings I didn't have the words for. I hope this discussion moves to mainstream arenas like talk shows and checkstand magazines..."― Hugo Wong, Ricepaper: The magazine of Asian literary arts
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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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
A Must Read for Multiracial Asian Children and Those Who Love Them
By Kenji Kuramitsu
One of my mentors pointed me to an article last year about how multiracial children who are "mixed with white" are not simply "white." This was my first exposure to Sharon H Chang’s scholarship, and immediately I was floored. I knew I needed to engage with this thinker’s work on multiracial identity more deeply – for my own well-being and indeed, for the sake of my future children.
I am a twenty-something recent college graduate who has only been studying this topic intentionally for a few years, but I have been silently struggling for much longer in trying find my place in a world that explicitly ignores mixed race people and cuts us into parts and halves. As a multiracial Japanese American growing up in the Midwest, I wasn’t aware of the wider community or history that birthed me. I didn't grow up on the West coast or among my mixed family in multiracial Hawai'i. I hadn't heard of “blood quantum” or “the one drop rule,” hapa film festivals, Maria P.P. Root, or critical mixed race studies.
For most of my life, I felt extremely disconnected from the racial identity that others consistently inscribed upon my body – while I knew in some sense that I was ethnically different from my white peers, I didn't understand what I was except, maybe, almost a “normal,” white person. Particularly of my own background and my desire to one day parent, I appreciated the author’s opening the work by echoing Frederick Douglass’ sentiment that it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken adults. I can’t help but wonder which of my racial wounds might be less painful if my parents took advantage of a resource like this when I was a child.
For me, one of the book's biggest strengths was in outlining the historical background on talk of “race” itself, and explaining this in relation to the troubled history of how mixed race people have historically been viewed in the United States. Throughout, the author keeps her words critical in a natural and helpful way, applying her tempered scholarship to addressing the scientific and colonialist legacies of race that continue to disenfranchise this much invoked but under-studied group (multiracial Asian children). The author is potently aware of the urgency of this conversation, and it is this fire that drives the book’s intensity.
Chang’s work gets at the heart of the sins of white supremacy by interrogating the shifting, fictional categories that insist upon “race” itself as a concrete biological marker. Reading “Raising Mixed Race” I was swept up in a current of heated reflection that helpfully situates multiracial Asian persons in the context of a racialized society that has created both spooky and soothing myths about Asian peoples to shore up anti-blackness and settler colonialism. Understanding this historical context crucially frames the rest of the discussion on how mixed race people are racialized today, and how we might respond to this continued dehumanization.
Chang understands well that proximity to whiteness is violent, as is the promise that multiracial children will sharply bring about the eventual salvation of a hopelessly racist America. Popular academic and social dialogue about multiracial people is that mixed race people are less than whole selves, or harbingers of a future without racial strife. There is a cutting discomfort in the juxtaposition of emerging from a social landscape that fetishizes, defangs, and consumes mixed race people (the U.S. today) to engaging with a bold author who neatly eviscerates these convenient fantasies with honesty and charm. Reading this work was detoxifying for me in a really good way, even as someone who has engaged in critical study of mixed race identity.
For mixed race children in particular, the dearth of literature and media representation for people who look like us has, from a young age, taught us that our stories don’t matter – that we need to pick only one side of ourselves, erasing whatever else sticks out. This book is actively combatting this, and hopefully setting a trend that other scholars and artists will follow and (riff off of) in responsible ways. My hope is that the author will continue to engage even more directly in future works with the very multiracial Asian children whom this book most decisively serves.
There is also an assumption when talking about Asian mixed race people in particular that we are only talking about people “mixed with white.” Chang avoids both of these fallacies, and deepens the conversation in an intersectional way that I have found to be totally unprecedented in the wider field of critical mixed race studies. Through the reflective lens of key interviews with several dozen parents of mixed race children (and stories from her own life) Chang is able to communicate this meticulous scholarship with truth and vulnerability. “Raising Mixed Race” lends itself to book discussions, intimate conversations between romantic partners, and classroom discussion.
The jagged edges of racial scorn that cut mixed race people in a million quotidian ways (from our family, friends, from each of our communities) are acknowledged in bold, healing ways in this work. Chang's scholarship is winsome and accessible – without watering down the vigorous anti-oppressive philosophical framework that undergirds her writing. I highly recommend this book to parents and, indeed, to children who are interested in learning about the bigger story that informs how multiracial Asian children are treated in our contemporary landscape. I have learned so much from this author already, and am looking forward to seeing how her work continues to make an impact on my family and my community.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Eurasians are waking up
By Michael Harold
This book is extremely important.
Mixed race parents to multiracial children have done a terrible disservice in the last 40 years.
Essentially what happened was that they merely assumed that their children would not be okay growing up under rather predictable patterns of parentage. Meaning that, yes, the majority of Eurasians come from Asian mothers and white fathers. This dynamic alone is indicative of patterns of power and dehumanization that affect our own children.
Online now there is a sizable movement by Eurasians attempting to reclaim their identity. This is going to be harder and harder to avoid particularly as racism gets worse, not better, with the arrival of new Asians in America who firmly believe that mixed-race children are more beautiful, yet ignore the fact that white male supremacy is the key issue here. The Asian woman as belonging to the white male - the Asian man as an invisible identity who can be laughed at for failing to "retain his own women" - the massive privilege that Asian women have in society and high value they have as compared to Asian men - and the Asian looking children as a result.
Every mixed race child including myself has at one point questioned why virtually all of us have white fathers. And I myself have gone to great lengths to avoid identifying as Asian merely because it seemed foolish to identify with the losing team. I.e., Asian women make a point of pairing up with white men - the same white men who are in charge of an extremely racist society - and laughing at Asian males - but by and large many of us look more or less Asian. The mixed race beauty myth merely applies a tiny percentage of a time.
Either way this book needs to be read and this issue needs to be addressed yesterday, rather than tomorrow, to prevent any said Eurasian awakening from going viral.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing book. Different from what I’d expected
By Christine T.
Amazing book. Different from what I’d expected, but in a very good way. The author clearly spent a lot of time researching the history of race relations, and it was very informative to have that foundational information before delving into the issues pertaining to multiracial Asian children. I liked how the author included snippets of parent interviews. In addition, unlike other workings on the same topic, the book is very inclusive of all multiracial Asian experiences, not only the white/ Asian mixes. Lots of gems in there - I've never used so many page markers when reading a book. It should be required reading for all parents of multiracial Asian children.
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