Are You Mixed?

A War Bride’s Granddaughter’s Narrative of Lives InBetween Contested Race, Gender, Class, and, Power

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Urban, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching
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Author: Sonia E. Janis ISBN: 9781681233895
Publisher: Information Age Publishing Publication: February 1, 2016
Imprint: Information Age Publishing Language: English
Author: Sonia E. Janis
ISBN: 9781681233895
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Publication: February 1, 2016
Imprint: Information Age Publishing
Language: English

In Are You Mixed?, Sonia Janis explores the spaces inbetween race and place from the perspective of an educator who is multiracial. As she reflects on her own experiences as a seventh grade student up to her eventual appointment as a school administrator, she learns of the complexity of situating oneself in predetermined demographic categories. She shares how she explores the intricacies of undefined spaces that teach her to embrace differences, contradictions, and complexities in schools, neighborhoods and communities. Exploring the inbetweenness (Anzaldua & Keating, 2002; He, 2003, 2010) of her life as a multirace person problematizes imbedded notions of race, gender, class, and power. The power of this memoir lies in its narrative possibilities to capture the contradictions and paradoxes of lives inbetween race and place, “to honor the subtleties, fluidities, and complexities of such experience, and to cultivate understanding towards individual ... experience and the multicultural/multiracial contexts that shape and are shaped by such experience” (He, 2003, p. xvii). This memoir creates new ways to think about and write about inbetween experience and their relevance to multicultural and multiracial education. Janis challenges educators, teachers, administrators, and policy makers to view the educational experience of students with multiracial, multicultural, and multilingual backgrounds by shattering predetermined categories and stereotyped classifications and looking into unknown and fluid realms of the inbetweenness of their lives. This challenge helps create equitable and just opportunities and engender culturally responsive and inspiring curricular and learning environments to bring out the best potential in all diverse schools, communities, neighborhoods, tribes and societies.

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In Are You Mixed?, Sonia Janis explores the spaces inbetween race and place from the perspective of an educator who is multiracial. As she reflects on her own experiences as a seventh grade student up to her eventual appointment as a school administrator, she learns of the complexity of situating oneself in predetermined demographic categories. She shares how she explores the intricacies of undefined spaces that teach her to embrace differences, contradictions, and complexities in schools, neighborhoods and communities. Exploring the inbetweenness (Anzaldua & Keating, 2002; He, 2003, 2010) of her life as a multirace person problematizes imbedded notions of race, gender, class, and power. The power of this memoir lies in its narrative possibilities to capture the contradictions and paradoxes of lives inbetween race and place, “to honor the subtleties, fluidities, and complexities of such experience, and to cultivate understanding towards individual ... experience and the multicultural/multiracial contexts that shape and are shaped by such experience” (He, 2003, p. xvii). This memoir creates new ways to think about and write about inbetween experience and their relevance to multicultural and multiracial education. Janis challenges educators, teachers, administrators, and policy makers to view the educational experience of students with multiracial, multicultural, and multilingual backgrounds by shattering predetermined categories and stereotyped classifications and looking into unknown and fluid realms of the inbetweenness of their lives. This challenge helps create equitable and just opportunities and engender culturally responsive and inspiring curricular and learning environments to bring out the best potential in all diverse schools, communities, neighborhoods, tribes and societies.

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