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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819075303321

Titolo

Mixed : multiracial college students tell their life stories / / edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Christina Gómez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, New York : , : Cornell University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8014-6915-5

1-322-52332-0

0-8014-6916-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GarrodAndrew <1937->

KilkennyRobert

GomezChristina

Disciplina

378.1/982

Soggetti

Racially mixed youth - Education (Higher) - New Hampshire - Hanover

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

So, what are you? / Chris Collado -- Good hair / Ana Sofia Brito -- In my world, 1+1 = 3 / Yuki Kondo Shah -- A sort of hybrid / Anna Bofa -- Seeking to be whole / Shannon Joyce Prince -- The development of a happa / Thomas Lane -- A little plot of no-man's land / Ki Mae Ponniah Heussner -- Finding blackness / Samiir Bolsten -- Chow Mein Kampf / Taica Hsu -- A work in progress / Anise Vance -- We aren't that different / Dean O'Brien -- Finding Zion / Lola Shannon.

Sommario/riassunto

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.