Category: Family/Parenting

  • This book explores mixed marriage though intimate stories drawn from the real lives of visibly different couples.

  • ‘Raising Mixed Race’: An Evening with Sharon H. Chang and Tangerine The Seattle Public Library Central Library Level 1 – Microsoft Auditorium 1000 Fourth Avenue Seattle, Washington 98104-1109 Thursday, 2016-09-29, 19:00-21:00 PDT (Local Time) Join us for an author talk, and live music by Seattle band Tangerine, to celebrate the final stop of Sharon H.…

  • Lessons to my child Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2012 98 pages DOI: 10.7282/T3GB221X Ayanna S. Boyd According to the U.S. Census Bureau, interracial marriages have continued to increase with 8.4 million people in mixed marriages in 2005. With the increasing number of interracial marriages, there has been a surge of multiracial…

  • A comparative study of familial racial socialization and its impact on black/white biracial siblings Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey May 2014 134 pages DOI: 10.7282/T33N21PQ Monique Anne Porow A Dissertation submitted to the Graduate School-New Brunswick Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of…

  • 4 Ways Parents Can Support Their Mixed Race Children Everyday Feminism 2016-01-05 Jennifer Loubriel According to my mom, when my brother was around four or five, my Black (African-American) paternal grandfather put a plate of rice and beans in front of him. My brother immediately burst into tears and asked, “Why do the beans look…

  • Modern American Spiritualism blossomed in the 1850s and continued as a viable faith into the 1870s. Because of its diversity and openness to new cultures and religions, New Orleans provided fertile ground to nurture Spiritualism, and many séance circles flourished in the Creole Faubourgs of Tremé and Marigny as well as the American sector of…

  • My mother loved our actual blackness and African-ness, not just the artistic representations of them — the hair and the clothing and the food. She loved the history, the music, the language. And she wanted it FOR US.

  • ‘Blind Spots’ and Other Problems in Globally Blended Families The Wall Street Journal 2016-08-31 Tracy Slater When the parents are in the majority and the kids are in the minority Perhaps your child, like my two-year-old, and many other children in globally blended families, belongs to the world’s growing mixed-ethnicity population. The World Factbook finds a…

  • The JewAsian Phenomenon: Raising Jewish-Asian Families JewishBoston: The Vibe of the Tribe 2016-08-10 Judy Bolton-Fasman, Culture Reporter A new book, as well as a conversation with its authors, sheds light on a growing segment of the Jewish population—Jewish-Asian children who are raised as Jews. Helen Kim and Noah Leavitt are the authors of “JewAsian: Race,…

  • BALTIMORE — He assembled the crib and mounted the bookshelves. She unpacked the bedding and filled the closet with onesies and rompers. Then husband and wife stood in the nursery and worried. Bill Janu, a police officer, is white. Shanna Janu, a lawyer, is black. As they eagerly awaited their baby’s birth this spring, they…