Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories

✍ Scribed by Andrew C. Garrod (editor); Robert Kilkenny (editor); Christina Gomez (editor)

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 196
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mixed presents engaging and incisive first-person experiences of what it is like to be multiracial in what is supposedly a postracial world. Bringing together twelve essays by college students who identify themselves as multiracial, this book considers what this identity means in a reality that occasionally resembles the post-racial dream of some and at other times recalls a familiar world of racial and ethnic prejudice.Exploring a wide range of concerns and anxieties, aspirations and ambitions, these young writers, who all attended Dartmouth College, come from a variety of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Unlike individuals who define themselves as having one racial identity, these students have lived the complexity of their identity from a very young age. In Mixed, a book that will benefit educators, students, and their families, they eloquently and often passionately reveal how they experience their multiracial identity, how their parents' race or ethnicity shaped their childhoods, and how perceptions of their race have affected their relationships.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction
PART I. WHO AM I?
1. Good Hair
2. “So, What Are You?”
3. In My World 1 + 1 = 3
4. A Sort of Hybrid
PART II. IN-BETWEENNESS
5. Seeking to Be Whole
6. The Development of a Happa
7. A Little Plot of No-Man’s-Land
8. Finding Blackness
PART III. A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
9. Chow Mein Kampf
10. A Work in Progress
11. We Aren’t That Different
12. Finding Zion
About the Editors