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In Solidarity with BLM – Critical Mixed Race Studies

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We the board of the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association appreciate the statements of solidarity in support of Black Lives Matter, yet we also acknowledge that many of those do not come with substantiated action behind them. In order to address this within our own association, we are clear where we stand and will do more than just acknowledge systemic problems of white supremacy, anti-Blackness and racial injustice.

Anti-Blackness and white supremacy must be destroyed. As mixed race/multiracial individuals, we must recognize our longstanding role in perpetuating anti-Blackness, including colorism within our various communities. Our racial and colonial miseducation must end now. By being critical and standing in our truth that one can identify with their multiple ancestries, yet also stand firm in their commitment to Black Lives Matter and against anti-Blackness, we can work towards ending white supremacy and systemic racism within the US and around the world.

We acknowledge that the history of mixed race/multiracial identity has been inherently tied to white supremacy and anti-Blackness. That our mixed identities are politicized and manipulated in ways to benefit whites and create further divisions between our communities of color. That those of us with white heritage and light skin have a legacy of exploiting white privilege. That we ALL have internalized racism and have been complicit in anti-Blackness.

Therefore, the CMRS Board is committed to the following actions:

We commit the rest of 2020 and 2021 to teaching, learning, and offering programming about dismantling anti-Blackness specific to mixed race/multiracial communities. We will designate caucus space, our new CMRS Scholar graduate/undergraduate student space, and a track on this topic for the 2022 conference.

We commit to a global outlook on mixed race/multiracial communities, especially considering the overlapping and intersecting oppressions of anti-Blackness globally and the specific contexts in nations and regions outside of the United States.

We commit to speaking up and having necessary conversations with our families, friends, and colleagues, no matter how uncomfortable.

We commit to teaching our children about anti-Blackness and systemic racism in an effort to plant seeds for the next generation.

We donated $1,000 on behalf of the CMRS network to organizations committed to Black lives, including:

We commit to sustained monthly donations to our local communities to fight anti-Blackness and white supremacy in the forms of money, supplies, and/or time.

We commit to supporting Black-owned businesses

Calling on non-Black Mixed Folx
We, as a board, are holding ourselves accountable in our efforts of uprooting White supremacy to specifically combat anti-Black racism. We are also calling on each of you who are not Black-identified to shoulder some of the weight of our Black kin and community in the fight against anti-Blackness. Irrespective of the racisms and oppressions each of us may variously experience, this moment calls on non-Black-identifying persons to combat anti-Blackness because otherwise we are complicit in that form of racist violence. This is not a call for performative allyship, but for self-reflective, engaged, and sustained action that will continue beyond the current moment when the Black Lives Matter movement is highly publicized.

What you can do:

As scholars, students, artists, clinicians, community organizers, and activists whose work concerns mixed race/multiraciality, we should each commit to examining how mixed race/multiraciality has been wielded or framed in ways that perpetuate anti-Blackness.

Make sure your investment in mixed race/multiraciality includes remedying anti-Blackness.

Do not remain silent. Speak up when you see and hear anti-Black sentiment in your family, your communities, and workplace.

Without putting the labor on Black-identified folx, study the history of anti-Blackness and how it continues to be ingrained and institutionalized in every aspect of society by actively, continuously self-educating. Draw from Black scholarship and perspectives.

Again, without putting the labor on Black-identified folx, learn what allyship means to Black communities and then do the work of being that ally in a way that centers Black voices.

If you can, donate to Black-organized movements and organizations, and support Black-owned businesses. Look into locally and nationally based organizations.

In mixed race/multiracial events and organizing, create space for Black-identified voices and foreground the message that Black Lives Matter in the structure of your program.

If you are in a leadership position, make certain that your BLM statements of solidarity have actionable steps that will be tracked and reported on. Transparency, follow-through, and accountability are key.

Without centering yourself, use your social media and platforms to discuss the actions you are taking to redress anti-Black racism.

Hold yourself and others accountable to redress anti-Blackness.

In solidarity,

Rudy P. Guevarra, Jr., President
Kelly Jackson, Vice-President
Alexandrina Agloro, Secretary
Chinelo L. Njaka, Treasurer
Haley Pilgrim, Student Representative
Sarah Yang Mumma, Caucus Coordinator
Naliyah Kaya, Community Liaison
Alma Villanueva, Communications Coordinator

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The final section offers multiple strategies and applied methods that can be used to enhance Multiracial inclusion through research, curriculum, and practice. The editors conclude with recommendations for future scholarship and practice.

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Recipient of the 2021 Innovation Award of The Multiracial Network (MRN)
In the last Census, over 9 million people - nearly 3% of the population - identified themselves as of two or more races. The proportion of college students who identify as Multiracial is somewhat higher, and growing. Although increasing at a slightly slower rate, Multiracial faculty and staff are also teaching and working on campuses in greater numbers. Together, Multiracial people from diverse backgrounds and in various roles are influencing college and university culture, practices, and climate.

This book centers the experiences of Multiracial people, those individuals claiming heritage and membership in two or more (mono)racial groups and/or identifies with a Multiracial term. These terms include the broader biracial, multiethnic, and mixed, or more specific terms like Blasian and Mexipino.

In addressing the recurring experiences of inclusion, exclusion, affirmation, and challenges that they encounter, the contributors identify the multiple sites in higher education that affect personal perceptions of self, belonging, rejection, and resilience; describe strategies they utilized to support themselves or other Multiracial people at their institutions; and to advocate for greater awareness of Multiracial issues and a commitment to institutional change.

In covering an array of Multiracial experiences, the book brings together a range of voices, social identities (including race), ages, perspectives, and approaches. The chapter authors present a multiplicity of views because, as the book exemplifies, multiracial people are not a monolithic group, nor are their issues and needs universal to all.

The book opens by outlining the literature and theoretical frameworks that provide context and foundations for the chapters that follow. It then presents a range of first person narratives - reflecting the experiences of students, faculty, and staff - that highlight navigating to and through higher education from diverse standpoints and positionalities. The final section offers multiple strategies and applied methods that can be used to enhance Multiracial inclusion through research, curriculum, and practice. The editors conclude with recommendations for future scholarship and practice.

This book invites Multiracial readers, their allies, and those people who interact with and influence the daily lives of Multiracial people to explore issues of identity and self-care, build coalitions on campus, and advocate for change. For administrators, student affairs personnel, and anyone concerned with diversity on campus, it opens a window on a growing population with whom they may be unfamiliar, mis-categorize, or overlook, and on the need to change systems and structures to address their full inclusion and unveil their full impact.

Contributors:
e alexander
Rebecca Cepeda
Lisa Combs
Wei Ming Dariotis
Nick Davis
Kira Donnell
Chelsea Guillermo-Wann
Jessica C. Harris
Andrew Jolivette
Naliyah Kaya
Nicole Leopardo
Heather C. Lou
Victoria K. Malaney Brown
Charlene C. Martinez
Orkideh Mohajeri
Maxwell Pereyra
Kristen A. Renn
Stephanie N. Shippen

"This book offers unique and complex explorations of diverse Multiracial experiences in higher education. Unlike many volumes, it highlights the lives of Multiracial faculty, staff, and graduate and undergraduate students who differ across racial backgrounds, racial identities, and campus locations (including four and two year institutions, and HBCUs). Because chapters offer theoretical analyses, narrative storytelling, and practical tools and strategies the material will resonate with readers with diverse interests and learning styles. This book is an essential resource for anyone who leads, teaches, serves, or studies at institutions of higher education and who seeks to understand and empower Multiracial people on their campuses."
Belinda P. Biscoe, Ph.D., Interim Senior Associate Vice President for University Outreach/College of Continuing Education - University of Oklahoma

" How do multiracial people navigate a society that prioritizes monoracism? Multiracial Experiences in Higher Education beautifully addresses this question. The narratives are the heart of this book, and the authors underscore the richness and complexities of multiracial people's experiences. Current doctoral students and recent graduates also contributed chapters, illustrating the importance of having perspectives across various generations. This book restored my faith in story-sharing and vulnerability as vehicles for change, and I applaud the authors for their courage."
Stephen John Quaye, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Studies - The Ohio State University

"Yet Multiracial Experiences in Higher Education: Contesting Knowledge, Honoring Voice, and Innovating Practice is the first comprehensive study on this topic. It provides guiding themes and an overarching framework in terms of its analysis. This ground-breaking volume includes, among other topics, reflections on the creative resistance to and triumphs over the various challenges experienced by multiracials-including students, staff, faculty, administrators, and others-who increasingly populate college and university campuses.

More important, this compilation suggests 'multiracial knowledge' can be a templatefor engaging in a social praxis that critiques racial essentialism and racial hierarchy as the basis for aspiring toward more inclusive collective subjectivities across the racial spectrum, including multiracials. This approach is based on the idea that multiraciality-and more broadly, conceptual stances that are 'betwixt and between'-can help avoid defensive-aggressive binarisms and polarizations that may be politically counterproductive in terms of building other issue-based coalitions. These offer a basis from which to advance thinking, practices, and policies seeking to ameliorate racism, racial inequalities, and foster social justice. Consequently, this collection of essays should be required reading for anyone aspiring toward a more just, equitable, and inclusive society. [This is] a long-overdue publication."
G. Reginald Daniel, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara; and author of More Than Black? Multiracial Identity and the New Racial Order (2002)

"This is a beautiful collection of theoretical ideas, personal stories, and examples of praxis; a must read for scholars and practitioners. I love that the book is grounded in theories about race and (mono)racism while elevating the voices of multiracial people, scholars, and educators. There are many moments of learning and growth throughout the book."
Gina A. Garcia, Associate Professor, Educational Foundations, Organizations, & Policy - University of Pittsburgh

"The editors of this volume have done us a great service. They have compiled one of the most comprehensive, informative, and thought-provoking resources for those hoping to expand their knowledge of mixed-race populations. This collection of excellent scholarly analyses, compelling narratives, and practical implications will surely be a vital asset to researchers and educators seeking to empower and serve multiracial communities for generations to come."
Samuel D. Museus, Professor of Education Studies and Founding Director of the National Institute for Transformation and Equity - University of California, San Diego

"Multiracial Experiences in Higher Education is an intergenerational journey through the past, present, and future state of multiraciality in academia. The synthesis of personal counter-stories and detailed 'call to action' strategies that challenge monoracism and ultimately white supremacy in higher education make it an important and timely read for all."Kelly F. Jackson, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor, Arizona State University, Vice President of the Critical Mixed Race Studies Association, co-author of Multiracial Cultural Attunement

"Multiracial Experiences in Higher Education gives important visibility to a growing segment of the higher education community that is too often rendered invisible by campus policies and cultural practices. The combination of theory, personal narratives, tools and strategies found in this cutting-edge collection of essays makes it a very useful resource for researchers and practitioners alike."
Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, Author, Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? and Other Conversations about Race

"This is an essential text for those hoping to understand the experiences of multiracial individuals in higher education. It is at once general and specific, obvious and nuanced, theoretical and practical, perfect and flawed. The book lives in the in-between of all of those dichotomies proudly occupying a diunital existence demanding to be seen as real, unique, vital, complex, and essential -- very much like the experiences of the multiracial people explored in the text."
Raechele L. Pope, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Education - University at Buffalo

"This is an important contribution to understanding the challenges facing multiracial students in a world that resists seeing or understanding their multiracial identity. Offering reflections on multiracial identity theory, and the voices of students and staff about navigating their multi-racial identities, it concludes with ideas for improving services for multiracial students. Readers are provided with a unique view of the evolution of theory and practice on multiracial identity through the perspectives of foundational theorists and a new generation of scholars who bring new insights questions and challenges to this field."
Rita Hardiman, Foundational White Racial Identity Theorist and Social Justice Consultant

Foreword -G. Reginald Daniel
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part One: Framing Multiracial Experiences in Higher Education

1) Insights on Multiracial Knowledge, Voices, and Practices: Lessons From Our Lives and Work- Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe and Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero
2) Multiracial Identity on Campus: Identities and Experiences of Multiracial People in Higher Education- Kristen A. Renn
3) The Naming and Framing of Identity: Reflecting on Core Concepts Through the Experiences of Multiracial People- Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe
4) Monoracism: Identifying and Addressing Structural Oppression of Multiracial People in Higher Education- Jessica C. Harris, Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero, and Maxwell Pereyra

Editors and Contributors
Index

Part Two: Multiracial Narratives Across the Higher Education Landscape
5) Back to Black- Nick Davis
6) On the Path to Multiracial Consciousness: Reflections on My Scholar-Practitioner Journey in Higher Education- Victoria K. Malaney Brown
7) Being Mexipina in Higher Education- Rebecca Cepeda
8) Remembering to Resist Racist Colonial Forgetting on Campus-e alexander
9) Existing In-Between: Embodying the Synergy of My Ancestors- Naliyah Kaya
10) Reflections of a Creole, Indigenous, Afro-Latin Scholar: From Community to the Classroom- Andrew Jolivétte

Part Three: Strategies and Tools for Enhancing Multiracial Inclusion
11) Contextualizing Multiraciality in Campus Climate: Key Considerations for Transformative Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion- Chelsea Guillermo-Wann and Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero
12) Building Multiracial Aikido: A Student Social Justice Retreat- Charlene C. Martinez and Stephanie N. Shippen
13) Mixed and Multiracial Student Organizations on Campus: The Necessity of Weaving Together Art and Critique- Orkideh Mohajeri and Heather C. Lou
14 Critical Mixed Race Studies: Rooted in Love and Fire- Nicole Leopardo, Kira Donnell, and Wei Ming Dariotis

Part Four: Future Directions
15) Intergenerational Reflections and Future Directions- Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero, Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, and Lisa Combs

Marc P. Johnston-Guerrero is an Associate Professor in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program at The Ohio State University and is affiliated faculty with the Asian American Studies program. He completed a Ph.D. in Education (with an emphasis in Higher Education & Organizational Change) from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he did assessment work for UCLA's Office of Residential Life and served as a Graduate Fellow in UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics. These experiences integrated his background in Human Biology (BS, Michigan State University) and Student Affairs Administration (MA, Michigan State University). He has worked in multicultural affairs units across several institutions, including the University of Arizona and New York University. Marc's research interests focus on diversity and social justice issues in higher education and student affairs, with specific attention to college students making meaning of race and racism and multiracial/mixed race issues. He serves the field of higher education through his involvement in the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) Governing Board as Member-at-Large, Faculty, and as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Higher Education.

Charmaine L. Wijeyesinghe, EdD, is a consultant with over 35 years of experience lecturing and writing on social justice, racial and social identity, intersectionality, and conflict resolution. She held several positons in student affairs including Staff Associate to the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Assistant Ombudsperson at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and Dean of Student at Mount Holyoke College. As National Program Consultant for the National Conference for Christians and Jews, Charmaine developed and facilitated staff, client, and board programs for 62 regional offices around the country. In addition to authoring book chapters and articles, she served as volume co-editor (with Bailey Jackson) for two editions of New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development (NYU Press), and volume editor for Enacting Intersectionality in Students Affairs: New Directions for Student Services (Jossey-Bass) and The Complexities of Race (forthcoming from NYU Press). Charmaine is on the Editorial Board of the Journal Committed to Social Change on Race and Ethnicity, and was the inaugural recipient of the NCORE Social Justice Award for Scholarship in 2017. Charmaine's doctoral research yielded one of the first models of Multiracial identity. This tool was adopted by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for its anti-bias curriculum.

higher education; multiracial identity; biraciality; multiethnicity; campus climate; exclusion and oppression

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Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. For more than 25 years he was a resource specialist and counselor in the San Francisco Unified School District. He later became a consultant to private schools, working with students that had severe learning and behavioral issues. Lee Mun Wah is now the Executive Director of Stirfry Seminars & Consulting, a diversity training company that provides educational tools and workshops on issues pertaining to cross-cultural communication and awareness, mindful facilitation, and conflict mediation techniques. Thousands of people from government and social service agencies, corporations and educational institutions have taken Lee Mun Wah's workshops and partnered with Stirfry Seminars & Consulting on their diversity initiatives

His first film, Stolen Ground, about the experience of Asian Americans, won honorable mention at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and his most famous film about racism, The Color of Fear, won the Gold Medal for Best Social Studies Documentary. Part Two of this film, Walking Each Other Home, won the Cindy Competition Silver Medal for Social Science. In 1995, Oprah Winfrey did a one-hour special on Lee Mun Wah's life and work that was seen by over 15 million viewers internationally.

In 2005, Lee Mun Wah directed and produced the film, Last Chance for Eden, a three-part documentary on sexism and racism. His newest book, Let's Get Real -What People of Color Can't Say & Whites Won't Ask, along with the film, If These Halls Could Talk, dealing with college students and their perspectives on race and racism, will both be released in 2011.

It is Lee Mun Wah's belief that we cannot wait until tomorrow for some charismatic leader to appear who will bring us all together. We each must take a stand and personally participate in this important journey of confronting our fears and beginning a conversation not only with those we love but also with those we have been taught to fear. We cannot continue being separate and unequal without there being a cost to each and every generation. Our survival and the very future of our children depend on all of us embracing our differences as well as our mutuality. If we can accomplish this in our lifetime, we can then look back and know that we have found a way to live together authentically and harmoniously, using and honoring all of our gifts and special contributions. To Lee Mun Wah, that is the true meaning of multiculturalism.

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Lee Mun Wah is an internationally renowned Chinese American documentary filmmaker, author, poet, Asian folkteller, educator, community therapist and master diversity trainer. For more than 25 years he was a resource specialist and counselor in the San Francisco Unified School District. He later became a consultant to private schools, working with students that had severe ...

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TOTUS Spoken Word Experience- University of Maryland - YouTube

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Videos & Podcasts - StirFry Seminars & Consulting

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Lee Mun Wah - Workshops, Keynotes, Interviews, TEDX Talks Videos and Podcasts Honorable Evolution #6 Lee Mun Wah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0UGUA7gc7YInterview with Marcel Tassara, January 2021 I See Color with Kyle Moncure Full Show Interview with Lee Mun Wah https://stirfryseminars.com/wp-content/uploads/video/ISC-Episode-2-Audiogram.mp4 Lee Mun Wah at Missouri State University https://youtu.be/QcmgdpkTRbU Workshop: If These Halls...

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Reflections - StirFry Seminars & Consulting

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