{"id":58828,"date":"2019-09-04T21:53:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58828"},"modified":"2019-09-04T21:53:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:53:56","slug":"mixed-race-matters-the-growing-multiracial-population-and-its-implications-for-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58828","title":{"rendered":"Mixed-race Matters: the Growing Multiracial Population and its Implications for Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed-race Matters: the Growing Multiracial Population and its Implications for Libraries<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

PIPEline: Addressing the intersections between Power, Identity, Privilege, and Equity within our library work<\/a>
\nUniversity of Michigan Library<\/a>
\nAnn Arbor, Michigan
\n2019-06-05<\/p>\n

Marna Clowney-Robinson<\/strong><\/a>, Access & Information Services Librarian<\/p>\n

Karen Downing<\/strong><\/a>, Education Librarian<\/p>\n

Darlene Nichols<\/strong><\/a>, Social Work Librarian<\/p>\n

Helen Look<\/strong><\/a>, Collection Analyst<\/p>\n

The expression of social and cultural identities matter to people in a myriad of ways\u2014seeing one\u2019s self-reflected on campuses, in schools and communities matters (Gaetano, 2015; Laffer, 2017; P., Mindy, 2019). This fact is important to libraries of all types as we think about library collections, services and staff. We know from research and from phenomena all around us that when people see themselves positively reflected in film, books, social media, news, music, theater, that those cultural memory institutions grow in their perceived relevance and significance to their communities (Downing, 2009; Tillson, 2011).<\/p>\n

Take as an example, Marley Dias\u2019<\/a> #1000blackgirlbooks<\/a> movement. Marley was only ten years old when she launched her movement to donate books to girls of African descent that featured African American female protagonists because not one of her required school readings featured Black girls as main characters (Grassroots Community Foundation, 2019). The We Need More Diverse Books<\/a> movement has raised awareness and in recent years the number of published diverse books has increased substantially. 28% of the children\u2019s books published in 2018 had main characters who were Asian American, Black, Latinx, and American Indian\/First Nation yet only 50% of the children\u2019s books about African Americans are written by people of that background (Cooperative Children\u2019s Book Center, 2019). The numbers for mixed race identities in children\u2019s books are not tracked but they are presumably an even smaller percentage…<\/p>\n

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Similar to Marley\u2019s pressing need to see herself reflected in literature, the authors remember growing up biracial without any reflection of ourselves in books, media or our communities. In fact, during the 60s and 70s, race-mixing was a highly taboo topic, and we remember believing we were anomalies among humans\u2014isolated and alone in our thoughts of how we were experiencing the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,125,8,4481,23,20],"tags":[1041,30215,1049,1040,22228,30218,30217,3804,30216],"class_list":["post-58828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-social-work","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-darlene-nichols","tag-darlene-p-nichols","tag-helen-look","tag-karen-downing","tag-karen-e-downing","tag-marna-clowney-robinson","tag-pipeline","tag-university-of-michigan","tag-university-of-michigan-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58828","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=58828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58829,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58828\/revisions\/58829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}