{"id":64420,"date":"2026-10-06T23:07:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64420"},"modified":"2026-10-06T23:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T23:36:46","slug":"mixed-roots-writers-on-multiracial-identity-and-both-and-belonging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=64420","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both\/And Belonging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Mixed-Roots-P2554.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Mixed Roots: Writers on Multiracial Identity and Both\/And Belonging<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beacon.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beacon Press<\/a><br \/>\n2026-10-13<br \/>\nCloth ISBN: 978-080702136-1<br \/>\n6 x 9 Inches<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anne Liu Kellor<\/strong>, Editor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Mixed-Roots-P2554.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beacon.org\/Assets\/ProductImages\/978-080702136-1.jpg\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in the world<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mixed people carry lifelong embodied knowledge about existing in non-binary, intersectional worlds. Mixed Roots presents 29 personal essays that complicate the narrative around race and identity\u2014dispelling narrow ideas that there is ever one \u201cright\u201d or singular way for folks to identify.<\/p>\n<p>Born out of a community of writers formed through editor Anne Liu Kellor\u2019s annual writing workshop, Mixed Roots is filled with pieces infused with a deep examination of privilege, microaggressions, whiteness, ancestral trauma, internalized racism, and paradoxical truths\u2014going beyond common tropes found in many mixed-race narratives. Highlighting various Asian, Black, Native, Latine, and Arab mixed voices from writers ranging from their 20s to 70s, Mixed Roots invites more multiracial and mixed roots people in to actively contribute to the dialogue around race, whether or not they publicly identify as \u201cmixed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A powerful collection of personal truths and cultural insight, Mixed Roots reveals how community and narrative can be useful tools to see how alike we are. We all carry in our bodies the historical legacies, confusion, trauma, and harm caused by racialized experiences\u2014Mixed Roots says we are multilayered, not easily defined or contained by one story, and as such, can speak to us all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in 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":[18,395,11,125,20],"tags":[28996,3688],"class_list":["post-64420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-autobiography","category-books","category-identitydevelopment","category-usa","tag-anne-liu-kellor","tag-beacon-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64420","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=64420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64426,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64420\/revisions\/64426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}