Generation Mixed Goes to School: Radically Listening to Multiracial Kids (Multicultural Education Series)

Product Description 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 Features: Examination of the most contemporary issues that impact mixed-race children and youth, including the racialized violence with which our country is now reckoning. Guided exercises with relevant, action-oriented information for educators, parents, and caregivers in every chapter. Engaging storytelling that brings the school worlds of mixed-race children and youth to life. Interdisciplinary scholarship from social and developmental psychology, Critical Mixed Race Studies, and education. Review “Generation Mixed Goes to School is a remarkable and invaluable book for anyone looking to offer a richly nuanced, fluid, and positive model for identity development in school-aged children. It is a necessary and urgent antidote to the orthodoxy of research on mixed-race youth as only understandable through lenses of exceptionalism and suffering. Whereas previous research drew on them and their experiences as merely objects for study, Generation Mixed understands mixed-race children to be agentic subjects fully capable of using their experiences to guide the rest of us in the directions that offer them the support they need. Through the stories of the participants we hear a persistent refusal to accept the empirics of race as rational. This book is expansive in its reach, facilitative in its tone, and loving in its aim. Joseph and Briscoe-Smith offer generative ideas of radical listening and friction as a primer for the discomfort we should and will feel when engaging students and our families in race talk and encouragement to sit with that discomfort until we are ready to hear the children and act. In centering how the mixed-race voices of this generation have taken up the fight against inequalities and racial injustice the authors show how we―educators, administrators, family and community members―can amplify their words and actions and follow their lead to all of our benefits. While Generation Mixed works to instill in us the tools needed to affirm the identities of mixed-race youth, particularly as they may shift from context to context, it is incredibly useful for academics in any discipline studying children, race, identities, families, and/or socialization practices. This book is replete with important provocations that force us to contend with how our research on race needs to similarly adjust and shift from context to context. It is a field-defining book.”―Myra Washington, assistant vice president for faculty equity and diversity and associate professor in ethnic studies, University of Utah Review “Generation Mixed Goes to School is a remarkable and invaluable book for anyone looking to offer a richly nuanced, fluid, and positive model for identity development in school-aged children. It is a necessary and urgent antidote to the orthodoxy of research on mixed-race youth as only understandable through lenses