Generation Mixed Goes to School: Radically Listening to Multiracial Kids

by Ralina L. Joseph, Allison Briscoe-Smith, James A. Banks (Editor)

Generation Mixed Goes to School radically listens to and weaves together stories of mixed-race children and youth, teachers, and caregivers with perspectives and research from social and developmental psychology, Critical Mixed Race Studies, and education. This book investigates how implicit bias affects multiracial kids in unforeseen ways, impacting those who are read as children of color as well as those who are not; how the silencing and invisibility of their experiences often create a barrier for mixed-race kids to engage in nuanced conversations about race and identity in the classroom; and how teachers are finding powerful ways to make meaningful connections with their mixed-race students. In addition, this book breaks out of the Black–White binary to include the perspectives of mixed-race children from Asian American, Latinx, and Native American backgrounds. It also diverges from scholarship on mixed-race youth by providing viewpoints from children who come from two or more communities of color, and not simply those who are from White–people of color backgrounds. Book

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction

192 pages, Hardcover

Published March 19, 2021

Reviews

[Janelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finally!

As soon as I saw this book, it called to me! I identify as mixed and felt so seen in reading this book. This text investigates real mixed racial identity issues so rarely discussed. This text also provides tools to really understand a mixed generation. Definitely recommend this to anyone.