New York Times Just Boarded the Post-Racial Express: A critical response to “Choose Your Own Identity” |
Multiracial Asian Families
2015-12-16
screen shot from NY Times Magazine
This Monday, The New York Times Magazine published a very unfortunate essay about multiracial Asian children: Choose Your Own Identity, by author and mother Bonnie Tsui. In it, Tsui (who is not multiracial herself) puzzles over her children’s mixed-race identities, what they may or may not choose to be one day, while taking a brief foray back/forward in time to consider the sociohistorical context of mixed-race and America’s impending multiracial future. After mulling on the subject for about ten paragraphs, she concludes with a seeming liberatory message on behalf of her children: “…the truth is, I can’t tell my sons what to feel…I can only tell them what I think about my own identity and listen hard to what they have to tell me in turn.”
Sounds innocent enough, yes?
No…
Read the entire article here.
Tags: Bonnie Tsui, Multiracial Asian Families, New York Times Magazine, Sharon Chang, Sharon H. Chang, The New York Times Magazine