{"id":58889,"date":"2019-10-04T23:14:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T23:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58889"},"modified":"2019-10-04T23:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T23:16:16","slug":"multiracial-cultural-attunement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58889","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Cultural Attunement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Multiracial Cultural Attunement<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

NASW Press<\/a>
\nOctober 2019
\n2018 pages
\nItem #5440
\nISBN: ISBN: 978-0-87101-544-0<\/p>\n

Kelly Faye Jackson<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor
\nSchool of Social Work
\nArizona State University<\/em><\/p>\n

Gina Miranda Samuels<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor
\nSchool of Social Service Administration
\nThe University of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat are you?\u201d \u201cBut you don\u2019t sound black!\u201d \u201cAw, mixed-race babies are so cute!\u201d These microaggressions<\/a> can deeply affect an individual\u2019s basic development, identity, sense of security, and belonging. Rather than having \u201cthe best of both worlds,\u201d research suggests that multiracial people and families experience similar or higher rates of racism, bullying, separation, suicide, and divorce than their single-race-identified peers. Multiracial people and families don\u2019t face these challenges because they are multiracial, but because dominant constructions of race, rooted in white supremacy, privilege single-race identities. It is this foundation of monocentrism that perpetuates the continued pathologizing and exotifying of people and families of mixed-race heritage. Furthermore, pervasive but misguided claims of colorblindness<\/a> often distort the salience of race and racism in our society for all people of color. This reinforces and enables the kind of racism and discrimination that many multiracial families and people experience, often leaving them to battle their oppression and discrimination alone.<\/p>\n

In this book, Jackson and Samuels draw from their own research and direct practice with multiracial individuals and families, and also a rich interdisciplinary science and theory base, to share their model of multiracial cultural attunement<\/a>. Core to this model are the four foundational principles of critical multiraciality, multidimensionality<\/a> and intersectionality<\/a>, social constructivism<\/a>, and social justice<\/a>. Throughout, the authors demonstrate how to collaboratively nurture clients\u2019 emerging identities, identify struggles and opportunities, and deeply engage clients\u2019 strengths and resiliencies. Readers are challenged to embrace this model as a guide to go beyond the comfort zone of their own racialized experiences to disrupt the stigma and systems of racism and monoracism that can inhibit the well-being of multiracial people and families.<\/p>\n

With case studies, skill-building resources, tool kits, and interactive exercises, this book can help you leverage the strengths and resilience of multiracial people and families and pave the way to your own personal growth and professional responsibility to enact socially just practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With case studies, skill-building resources, tool kits, and interactive exercises, this book can help you leverage the strengths and resilience of multiracial people and families and pave the way to your own personal growth and professional responsibility to enact socially just practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,414,125,8,17,23674,394,4481,23,20],"tags":[4271,1029,4272,2210,4480,3171,20197,30265],"class_list":["post-58889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-social-justice","category-socialscience","category-social-work","category-teaching","category-usa","tag-gina-m-samuels","tag-gina-miranda-samuels","tag-gina-samuels","tag-kelly-f-jackson","tag-kelly-faye-jackson","tag-kelly-jackson","tag-nasw-press","tag-national-association-of-social-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58889","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=58889"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58988,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58889\/revisions\/58988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}