Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person [Paperback]

Sundee Tucker Frazier (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 083082247X | ISBN-13: 978-0830822478 | Publication Date: December 28, 2001 | Edition: Print On Demand Edition

Where do you fit? Who is your community? Who really understands you? Being multiracial is often confusing, frustrating and lonely. Perhaps you feel as Sundee Tucker Frazier sometimes does when faced with yet another form asking for her ethnic identifiction--like "none of the above." In this book, Frazier offers good news: God loves multiracial people and their interracial families. There is a special place for you in God's plan! And God wants to give you a sense of wholeness, worth and belonging--as one made in God's very likeness. Frazier helps you understand the experiences that form who you are and shows how to connect with others like you. She offers insight for developing your ethnic identity, understanding your family of origin--even figuring out who to marry! Most of all, she encourages you to gain a sense of God's purpose for your life. And for those who aren't multiracial themselves but know someone who is, she clarifies the challenges and rewards of sensitive relating. With Frazier you'll embark on a journey of personal discovery--with the goal of embracing all of who you are. You'll discover joy in living as a multiracial person as you gain the hope and courage to "check all that apply."

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Sundee Frazier, a self-described "AmericanAfricanScottishDutchDanishSwedeIndigenousPerson," tackles the ambiguities of being a multiracial woman of faith in Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person. In it she cogently describes the particular tension of multiracial identity, the sense of never quite belonging anywhere; she also insists that one's core identity comes only from God. Considering that the number of interracial marriages has swelled from 310,000 in 1970 to 1.3 million in 1994, there is an ever-enlarging audience for Frazier's thoughtful reflections.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 199 pages
• Publisher: IVP Books; Print On Demand Edition edition (December 28, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 083082247X
• ISBN-13: 978-0830822478
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,046,399 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, November 16, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person (Paperback)

This is a great book where Frazier explores many of the issues that multiraical people deal with. She uses personal interviews with multiracial people as well as drawing on her own personal experience. Although I am not multiracial (I am black) I found it very insightful and it will help me to relate to multiracial people better. A must read for anyone who is multiracial or who cares about befriending them.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very insightful, December 5, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person (Paperback)

Tucker Frazier breaks new ground in this thoughtfully written and thoroughly original work. Through her broad interviews and examples from her own life, she gives voice to the under represented of the under represented. And her reflections on the spiritual lives of multiracial people are profound. Readable, enjoyable, provocative.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much needed for the multiracial community, June 24, 2008

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M. Edwards "Yo soy biracial paque tu lo sepa" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person (Paperback)

Dirty Sally
Being a member of a multi-ethnic family myself, I purchased this book to help teach my husband what it is like to grow up in such a family. I am German and African American.
This book has been an excellent resource because it touches on the many topics involved including terminology, answering the "What are you? question, dating, etc...
The author did alot of research including interviewing members of many different multi-racial and bi-racial families.
This book focuses on empowering members of multi-racial and bi-racial families to be proud of who they are and gives advice about how to handle in a positive light some of the negative situations they may encounter. The book particularly focuses on helping to raise self-esteem in multi-racial and bi-racial individuals. It made me feel proud to be biracial. I highly recommend this book.
I am an author myself and I have written a book entitled Dirty Sally...The untold stories of mixed race children who find a new identity, love, faith and forgiveness through God. This Christian based children's book seeks to raise awareness within the bi-racial community. Allegorical tales detail the unspoken realities facing multiracial children, and encourage young readers on how they might make better choices by referring to biblical scripture as a teaching tool. I am also available on Amazon.com. Thank you for your support.
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