{"id":47276,"date":"2016-06-04T01:12:34","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T01:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47276"},"modified":"2016-06-04T01:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T01:25:44","slug":"book-review-mixed-race-youth-and-schooling-the-fifth-minority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47276","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority"},"content":{"rendered":"

Book Review: Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a>
\nPublished online: 2016-06-01
\nDOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2016.1190852<\/a><\/p>\n

Remi Joseph-Salisbury<\/strong><\/a>
\nUniversity of Leeds<\/em><\/p>\n

Mixed-race youth and schooling: the fifth minority<\/em><\/a>, by Sandra Winn Tutwiler<\/a>, Abingdon, Routledge, 2016, xv + 241 pp., \u00a329.95 (paperback),\u00a0<\/strong>ISBN-13 978-1138021938<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mixed-race youth and schooling<\/em> offers a welcome contribution to a sparse area of\u00a0academic inquiry. Making the case that as a group mixed-race individuals are constitutive of the \u2018fifth minority\u2019 in the United States, the book is interested in the\u00a0schooling of children of \u2019minority\/non-minority’ and ‘minority\/minority\u2019 parents.<\/p>\n

With a primary target audience of school teachers and educationalists, the\u00a0book of nine chapters is divided into three sections. Section one considers how\u00a0race constitutes a determinant factor in lived experiences in the United States,\u00a0and how this implicates mixed-race individuals particularly. In section two, Winn\u00a0Tutwiler turns to look at how mixed-race children interact with their families,\u00a0peers, communities and schools and how these interactions impact upon schooling experiences. The third and final section of the book focuses on how mixedness\u00a0is constructed in the school, and by teachers. This section concludes by outlining\u00a0how schooling environments can be supportive of mixed-race students.<\/p>\n

Chapter one looks at the emergence and permanence of race, white supremacy, and the racial stratification of society. The chapter refutes notions that\u00a0race is reducible to class before beginning to probe how mixedness impacts\u00a0upon race discourse and stratification.<\/p>\n

Building on this, the second chapter considers how, historically, white supremacist power structures have responded to the potential challenges mixed-race\u00a0people present to \u2019societies wanting uncomplicated divisions by race\u2019 (28). This\u00a0chapter considers different responses to mixedness and explores interesting distinctions between different mixed-race groups. Winn Tutwiler shows that white\u00a0America has a deep-rooted and abiding moral aversion to racial mixing and historically this engendered a proliferation of anti-miscegenation<\/a> laws and morals.<\/p>\n

In Chapter three, Winn Tutwiler seeks to provide a knowledge base for educators on the processes of racial identity formation for mixed-race youth. This endeavour, Win Tutwiler explains, is essential to countering teachers\u2019 ideas that may be\u00a0based upon stereotypes and misinformation. Emphasizing the importance for the\u00a0\u2018social, emotional and academic well\u2014being\u2019 of mixed-race youth, this chapter\u00a0gives an overview of some of the (predominantly) psychological literature on\u00a0racial identity (57). Winn Tutwiler unpicks what she sees as some often fundamental inadequacies in the application of theories developed for monoracial identities\u00a0to mixed-race children. Although perhaps understandable due to the predominance in existing literature, this chapter seems to focus heavily on Black-white\u00a0mixed-race identity and thus it is unclear how widely applicable some of the\u00a0cited research is to other mixed-race groups.<\/p>\n

As the focus shifts slightly to look at how these identities are constituted and\u00a0lived, chapter four considers the role of the family in the lives of mixed-race…<\/p>\n

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