Meeting the Needs of Multiracial and Multiethnic Children in Early Childhood Settings

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

“My inclusion in general POC spaces is a tricky one. While my ethnicity is very rarely discounted, the white privilege I’m afforded and responsible for owning quickly screws up the POC binary, too. Other people of color can respond with a hint of caution. Some openly recognize the complexity that I am holding and accept my lens as meaningful in the POC experience. Some do not. While prejudices I’ve experienced have punctured my bubble, guilt inevitably arises over how much to talk about these experiences as valid in contrast to my other advantages, especially with other people of color. I see myself as a woman of color with light skinned privileges. I hold the duality as both a recipient and an ally of a legacy of oppression and colonialism.” —Deva Segal

Tiffany McLain LMFT, “A Part and Apart,” Psychology Today, August 21, 2018. https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/living-between-worlds/201808/part-and-apart.

Meeting the Needs of Multiracial and Multiethnic Children in Early Childhood Settings

Meeting the Needs of Multiracial and Multiethnic Children in Early Childhood Settings

Early Childhood Education Journal
Issue Volume 26, Number 1 (September, 1998)
Pages 7-11
Print ISSN 1082-3301; Online ISSN: 1573-1707
DOI 10.1023/A:1022974423276

Francis Wardle

Early childhood programs have been in the forefront of implementing a multiracial curriculum. Early childhood educators need to extend these approaches to support and embrace multiracial and multiethnic children. These are children whose biological parents crossed traditional U.S. Census categories to have children. To meet the unique needs of these children and their families, early childhood educators need to engage in staff training, provide classroom materials, work closely with parents, and challenge the single race approach to multicultural education.

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