Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children |
Raising Mixed Race: Seattle author shows realities facing multiracial children
The Seattle Globalist
2015-12-09
The day my mixed race son was born in 2009 was a turning point for the way I thought about race.
Despite living for decades as a multiracial person myself, suddenly I started asking deeper questions about race, racism, and mixedness. I realized I needed to move beyond reflecting just on self-identity, and start placing our family in critical conversation with a national global politic. What was our relationship as mixed race Asian peoples to a planet devastated by European colonialism and to our home, a colonized nation, devastated by four centuries of violent white racism?
How would my son experience this world? What would he learn about himself? And how would he grow to contribute to its transformation, or perpetuate its ongoing devastation?…
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