"Biracial," "interracial," "multiracial," and "mixed-race" are used interchangeably and are often self-prescribed by individuals and their families. As this group increases in the general population, teachers are beginning to see more of these children in their classrooms. In this article, the...
In this adaptation Lissa is presented as biracial. She clearly has Black features–dark skin and beautifully curly hair. Her father represents as white, or at least white-er. We also see a photograph in Lissa’s bedroom of her late mother who is also clearly Black. There is no ...
Truly, one of the greatest gifts you can give your children and the most powerful way to foster empathy is to expose them to people unlike themselves. Challenge stereotypes and prejudice. This one is tough. When I became the mother of multiracial children, I vowed that I would never allow...
is uniquely written in double voice with chapters alternating between chapters as the author recounts his life growing up as a biracial child and his mother recalls in detail her disownment from her Orthodox Jewish family, marrying a black man and successfully raising twelve biracial children. Th...
The term #BlackLivesMatter is the people of color saying that they are tired of police brutality against colored men. Interracial couples in Baltimore fear for their biracial children because they are half African-American. And officers killing men of color who didn’t do harm and didn't get...
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I also identify as both black and white (being that I am biracial). I don’t exclusively identify with one group over another. This gives me autonomy as I can flow from one group of people to the next. I become ethnically ambiguous and can blend into any situation, in turn making me...
2024). Particularly in preschool settings, educators may fall back on racial biases towards Black children in the face of insufficient resources and high job-related stress (De Los Santos et al.,2023). One factor that may influence how a teacher responds to child behavior, is their attitudes ...
Some flowers need the searing sun to grow, others the shade. My pain is not my children’s pain. My fears are not their fears. They will have their own joys, their own challenges, their own wounds. Just as I have had mine. For me, the world was either black or white when it cam...
“privileged” likely meant that due to my background as a biracial Asian Latino heterosexual cisgender (that is, I “present” as the sex I was “assigned” at birth) male, this means that I have led a privileged life. However, I also learned that many inhabitants of elite universities...