Raising Multiracial Children: Tools for Nurturing Identity in a Racialized World
Farzana Nayani
Top 10 Best Quotes
“what it is like to be in a space where being multiracial is seen, accepted, understood, and not categorized as different, exotic, or other. I”
“to allow for the child to process their experiences as they come into contact with sources on their race and culture,”
“to allow for the child to process their experiences as they come into contact with sources on their race and culture, in order to eventually be able to embody a definition of identity for themselves.”
“terms of interracial unions in the United States, the percentage of married-couple households that are interracial or interethnic grew from 7.4% in 2000 to 10.2% in 2010. The largest group of interracial/interethnic married-couple combinations was of non-Hispanic Whites married to Hispanics, which increased in 43% of the counties across the United States.”
“or perhaps we have had experiences where the dialogue has gone in unintended or undesired directions, reinforcing our hesitation to approach it at all.”
“of multiplicity and belonging to more than one space,”
“important to acknowledge racial and cultural differences while at the same time raising and nurturing children overall in their development as human beings.”
“distinction between race and ethnicity doesn’t allow someone who is multiracial of Spanish/Hispanic/Latino heritage to be properly identified in the count of more than one race unless they select two or more different races (e.g., Black, White, and Hispanic), since choosing this ethnic identity plus a single race (e.g., White and Hispanic) does not qualify a person as multiracial.”
“are we as adults ready to talk about race?”
“any bit of Black heritage would be considered Black, to preserve the power of and land ownership by White individuals.”
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