In her new book, Multiracial Parents: Mixed Race Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race, Miri Song considers how mixed-race parents identify with and draw from their cultural backgrounds in raising and socializing their children.
A revealing portrait of how multiracial identity is and is not transmitted to children, Multiracial Parents focuses on couples comprised of one white and one non-white minority, who were mostly ‘first generation mixed’, situating her findings in a trans-Atlantic framework. By drawing on detailed narratives about the parents’ children and family lives, this book explores what it means to be multiracial, and whether multiracial identity and status will matter for multiracial people’s children.
Professor Song’s book raises fundamental questions about the future significance of racial boundaries and identities
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- Miri Song is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research