Category: Family/Parenting

  • Blended Families Mixed Roots Stories 2015-09-02 Tru Leverette, Associate Professor of English University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida What does it mean to call a family blended? The term still refers to families formed after divorce and remarriage—step-parents and step-children and step-siblings pieced together in new patterns. The term can also encompass families that are…

  • Are You Sensitive to Interracial Children’s Special Identity Needs? Young Children Volume 42, Number 2 (January 1987) pages 53-59 Francis Wardle Red Rocks Community College, Colorado Early childhood educators continually adjust to families they serve. Educators must provide for children not living with their natural parents, children from abusive families, children who rarely see their…

  • My baby will be mixed race. So why did I automatically think of him as ‘black’? The Guardian 2014-10-14 Victoria Bond I picked a black baby to represent my unborn child on a cake because of my own adherence to the ‘one-drop rule’ My 87-year-old grandmother has a very specific way of saying the word…

  • Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children Da Capo Press 2003 224 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780756793401 Paperback ISBN: 9780738209500 Donna Jackson Nakazawa “Am I black or white or am I American?” “Why don’t my eyes look like yours?” “Why do people always call attention to my ‘different’ hair?” Helping…

  • Now casting nationwide for a dynamic and charismatic, blended, interracial family! Kinetic Content (part of Red Arrow Entertainment Group) Los Angeles, California 2015-08-12 Angelo Ierace, Development Producer Kinetic Content, a television production company in Los Angeles, California, is currently developing docu-series that will feature the day-to-day life of one blended, interracial family. If you and…

  • Exhibition: Zun Lee, Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center Contemporary Gallery 233 4th Street, NW Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 2015-06-09 through 2015-08-29 Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Friday, 12:00-18:00; Saturday, 10:00-15:00 Through intimate black-and-white frames, the viewer gains access to often-overlooked moments in the lives of African American men whom…

  • Is It Possible to Balance Two Cultures Perfectly? Mixed Roots Stories 2015-08-06 Brittany Muddamalle, Guest Blogger I met my husband in California during a program with our church. We were just two young kids falling in love. We were lost in our own world. The scope of our differences didn’t really come out until we…

  • My interracial family needs its own action figures The Washington Post 2015-08-06 Nevin Martell (Courtesy of the author) Growing up, I can recall owning only two black action figures in a massive collection that spanned movies, television and comic book characters. There was Lando Calrissian – the smooth talking, caped czar of Cloud City in…

  • The Spirit of London Matador (an imprint of Troubador) 2015-09-28 198×127 mm Paperback ISBN: 9781784624057 Rob Keeley The spirits were at work here, somehow. But why? On returning to London, Ellie investigates the mystery surrounding 47 Foster Square. Who is the sender of ghostly messages asking her for help? What is the secret of the…

  • The colour black, Mixed-race people Thinking Allowed BBC Radio 4 2015-07-22 Laurie Taylor, Host Black: the cultural and historical meaning of the darkest colour. From the ‘little black dress’ which epitomises chic, to its links to death, depression and evil, ‘black’ embodies many contrasting values. White Europeans exploited the negative associations of ‘black’ in enslaving…