🟢 The Difference Between Racism and Colorism. . 🟢 Skin color matters because we are a visual species and we respond to one another based on the way we physically present. Add to that the “like belongs with like” beliefs most people harbor, and the race-based prejudices human beings have attached to certain skin colors, and we come to present-day society, where skin color becomes a loaded signifier of identity and value. . 🟢 from Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families by Lori L. Tharps (Beacon Press, 2016). . #book #mixedbooks #bookstagram #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfmqm7ktYzQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and teenagers do not identify themselves as being just one race or another. Here is a book that allows these young people to speak in their own voices about their own lives. What Are You? is based on the interviews the author has made over the past two years with mixed-race young people around the country. These fresh voices explore issues and topics such as dating, families, and the double prejudice and double insight that come from being mixed, but not mixed-up. . . . #books #mixedbooks #mixedpeoplebooks #whoareyou #identity #mixes https://www.instagram.com/p/CcKe3xStkJp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"The Other Side of Perfect" is the story of Alina’s understanding of her biracial background is one among many shifts she goes through. There are an endless number of ways biracial and multiracial people experience and understand their racial and cultural identities as they live their utterly individual lives. Books starring biracial and multiracial characters written by biracial and multiracial authors help show some of that diversity. Being asked “what are you?” so much made me realize that while I’m often recognized as mixed, I’m not always recognized as Asian. This has hit me in different ways at different times. When I was little and wanted to look more like my Japanese mom, it felt sad. When I learned the word “hapa” while visiting my grandparents in Hawai’i, it felt special. When anti-Asian racism and hate crimes skyrocketed this past year, but I didn’t have to worry for my own personal safety, it felt complicated and unfair. Mostly, my feelings about my biracial identity have come in phases, shifting over time and circumstances, sometimes in the background and sometimes in the forefront of my mind. These feelings helped shape my debut YA novel. . 🖌Mariko Turk . . . #diversebooks #bookstagram #book #mixedbooks #biracialbooks #biracialbookworms https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwkQhGs1b1/?utm_medium=tumblr

Nigerian author Chibundu Onuzo’s third novel, Sankofa, is the funny, gripping and surprising story of a mixed-race British woman who goes in search of the West African father she never knew. . . #mondayreadings #mixedracereadings #mixedbooks #diversebooks #representation #representationmatters https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwhnPFswcF/?utm_medium=tumblr