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Diggs, T., Evens, S.(2015). Mixed Me. Feiwel and Friends: New York.

Naidoo, J.P., & Dahlen, S.P. (2013). Diversity in youth     literature: Opening doors through reading. Chicago: American Library Association.

Watkins, S.Q., Frongia, D. (2015). Characters like me: Chyna's doll. Baobab Publishing: Reno.

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The U.S. Census Bureau finds that in 2016, about 10 million Americans chose two or more racial categories when asked about their race.  How are they represented in text and in our classrooms/homes?  

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The U.S. Census Bureau finds that in 2016, about 10 million Americans chose two or more racial categories when asked about their race.  How are they represented in text and in our classrooms/homes?  

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What texts do you currently use/aspire to use in your classroom that portray students with multiracial backgrounds?

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Given the inevitability of encountering stereotypes, the reader needs to consider the extent to which the literature resists or reinforces those paradigms.

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Given the inevitability of encountering stereotypes, the reader needs to consider the extent to which the literature resists or reinforces those paradigms.

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Table Talk/Shadowshaper: How do biracial characters respond to racism?
Are readers led to believe that a character's real or perceived lack of group membership is because he/she is mixed, or because of rigidity in his/her environment?
Do characters have to change in order to be accepted or can they enact change in their environment and remain true to themselves?

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Contemporary YA fiction often supports the stereotype of the socially maladjusted child struggling to fit in. 

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Contemporary YA fiction often supports the stereotype of the socially maladjusted child struggling to fit in. 

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Mixed-race characters are transformed, but the conflict and resolution is the fact of being mixed. The process of transformation is private, internal, and solitary. In this way the problem is the mixed-race subject, not the attitudes of society.

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Chyna's Doll

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characters like me- chyna's doll: chyna and luna (characters like me: chyna and luna) (volume 1)

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Characters Like Me- Chyna's Doll: Chyna And Luna (Characters Like Me: Chyna and Luna) (Volume 1)

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Characters Like Me-Chyna's Doll is about a little girl named Chyna. Chyna is a biracial five year old girl with a father of African American descent and a mother of Asian American descent. It isn't until Chyna goes to show and tell at school with her favorite doll Luna that she begins questioning...

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Single Story
Repetition of themes
Reinforce/Interrupt Stereotypes
Power and Privilege

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Promoting the idea we are now in a "post-race" society...new race-free identity...but post-race does not mean post-racism 

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Promoting the idea we are now in a "post-race" society...new race-free identity...but post-race does not mean post-racism 

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Table Talk: Multiracial children are vastly underrepresented in the literature on racial identity. Why? What are children learning about themselves in an era that tries to be ahistorical, believes the race problem has been "solved", and that mixed-race people are proof of it?

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2000- U.S. Census standards allowed Americans to identify themselves as multiracial...the shift from singular to multiple racial classification possibilities has provided a level and a presence for mixed-race identity in America and in the world for children's and young adult literature. 

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2000- U.S. Census standards allowed Americans to identify themselves as multiracial...the shift from singular to multiple racial classification possibilities has provided a level and a presence for mixed-race identity in America and in the world for children's and young adult literature. 

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What kind of language is used in describing racial identity? (mixed-race, biracial, multiracial, interracial, hapa, mestizo, mulatta)

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Elementary Classroom

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Strangers in Our Midst
"Through cultural, linguistic, and historical references, D seems to identify as black, though she does not say so directly...an example of how sometimes mixed-race people identify monoracially, especially when appearance is a stronger marker and the absence of the other racial group make it "easier" or more logical to identify with those who are present than those who are not."

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Blending In
"physical appearance as the source of conflict for mixed-reace characters"

"Having to explain or defend racial group membership is part of the reality of mixed-race individuals in life and in literature."

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"too brown for his hometown and too white for the barrio"

"straddling cultures means negotiating power and privilege as well as language, culture and difference"