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Scenario

How mixed-race community organizations navigate celebration versus struggle

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.

What we've seen

A community group discovers that mixed-race identity encompasses both joyful multiplicity and difficult marginalization that resist simple programming.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mixed-race identity and belonging?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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