Our community center is trying to create programming that serves mixed-race families but we keep running into tensions between people who want to emphasize the beauty of multiculturalism and those of us who think we need to address the real challenges of not fitting neatly into racial categories. Every planning meeting turns into the same unresolved debate.
More people experience this than they realize.
A community group discovers that mixed-race identity encompasses both joyful multiplicity and difficult marginalization that resist simple programming.
“Where Are You with Mixed-race identity and belonging?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.