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How to navigate racial categories for your multiracial child

I'm filling out my kid's school forms and they want me to pick one race for her and I'm staring at this paper like it's asking me to choose which half of her doesn't matter.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional systems that require singular identity markers force impossible choices that fragment rather than honor wholeness.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.