Mixed

Andrew Garrod is Professor Emeritus of Education at Dartmouth College. He is coeditor of First Person, First Peoples: Native American College Graduates Tell Their Life Stories, Balancing Two Worlds: Asian American College Students Tell Their Life Stories, and Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories, all from Cornell. Robert Kilkenny is Executive Director of the Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention and a Clinical Associate in the School of Social Work at Simmons College. He is coeditor of Mi Voz, Mi Vida and Balancing Two Worlds. Christina Gómez is Professor of Sociology at Northeastern Illinois University. She is coeditor of Mi Voz, Mi Vida.

• PrefaceIntroductionPart I. Who Am I?1. Good HairAna Sofia De Brito2. So, What Are You?Chris Collado3. In My World 1+1 = 3Yuki Kondo-Shah4. A Sort of HybridAllison BatesPart II. In-Betweenness5. Seeking to Be WholeShannon Joyce Prince6. The Development of a HappaThomas Lane7. A Little Plot of No-Man's-LandKi Mae Ponniah Heussner8. Finding BlacknessSamiir BolstenPart III. A Different Perspective9. Chow Mein KampfTaica Hsu10. A Work in ProgressAnise Vance11. We Aren't That DifferentDean O'Brien12. Finding ZionLola ShannonAbout the Editors

[A] valid and necessary addition to the field.... Mixed sheds light on pre-college, as well as collegiate experiences, which may be influential in the identities and lives of multiracial students. Furthermore, the 12 essays in the book explore aspects of multiracial students' experiences that have yet to be extensively researched, including the influences of familial dynamics, intersections of additional social identities, and the environments and communities in which one grows up.... The 12 essays are enchanting and informative, providing a much needed text for engaging multiraciality in higher education.- Jessica C. Harris (Journal of College Student Development) With this collection, Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny and Christina Gomez have done a significant service for anyone interested in an exploration of the complexity of issues facing multiracial persons. The 12 essays—six by women, six by men—written by students at Dartmouth College over the course of a 10-week academic terma provide an intimate first-person and appropriately diverse look at the multiple forces impacting the process of developing a multiracial identity.... This book's 12 essays provide important case material that can help promote the kind of thoughtful conversation necessary to move us forward as a diverse people.- Tim Hatfield (Journal of Moral Education)