{"id":44498,"date":"2015-12-07T01:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44498"},"modified":"2015-12-07T01:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T01:51:42","slug":"mixed-like-us-how-to-support-biracial-children-and-their-shifting-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44498","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Like Us: How to Support Biracial Children and Their Shifting Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/literatigurl.com\/2015\/12\/01\/mixed-like-us-how-to-support-biracial-children-and-their-shifting-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mixed Like Us: How to Support Biracial Children and Their Shifting Identities<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/literatigurl.com\" target=\"_blank\">Literatigurl<\/a><br \/>\n2015-12-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/literatigurl\" target=\"_blank\">Kimberly Cooper<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The year was 2002. I\u2019d just landed in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tucson,_Arizona\" target=\"_blank\">Tucson, AZ<\/a> to present my graduate school research on the \u201cSocial Perceptions of Multiracial Children\u201d at the first-ever <em>National Conference on the Multiracial Child<\/em> in the United States. Hundreds of teachers, mental health professionals, social workers, student organizations, academics, authors and families from all over the U.S. and abroad met for two days of workshops specifically celebrating multiracial children and their histories. Organized by the two largest multiracial advocacy organizations in the U.S. \u2013 <em>AMEA (The Association of MultiEthnic Americans)<\/em> and <em>The Mavin Foundation<\/em>, we convened to share resources, strengthen collaboratives and then return to our respective fields to expand discussions on diversity and multiculturalism to include those of us strongly identifying with two or more distinct racial backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Growing up biracial, I\u2019d learned that negative social perceptions of biracial, multiracial and transracially adopted children were largely impacting the growth, well-being, and resources available to members of our own community at home and in schools. Asserting that biracial children were more \u201cmixed-up\u201d than mixed-race only served to further perpetuate negative stereotypes about us.<\/p>\n<p><em>But what if mixed-race and biracial children were supported for an identity which embraced both parents?&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/literatigurl.com\/2015\/12\/01\/mixed-like-us-how-to-support-biracial-children-and-their-shifting-identities\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mixed Like Us: How to Support Biracial Children and Their Shifting Identities Literatigurl 2015-12-01 Kimberly Cooper The year was 2002. I\u2019d just landed in Tucson, AZ to present my graduate school research on the \u201cSocial Perceptions of Multiracial Children\u201d at the first-ever National Conference on the Multiracial Child in the United States. Hundreds of teachers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,125,8,20],"tags":[19482,22201],"class_list":["post-44498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-kimberly-cooper","tag-literatigurl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44499,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44498\/revisions\/44499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}