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Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person

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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.

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.

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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I bought this book since we may become adoptive parents of a biracial child. I felt it was important to understand the experiences of a biracial person in our society. I found Ms. Frazier's book to be very helpful. She is very open in the book about her real life experiences and I was really touched by her recollections. I feel that this book would be helpful to many people, in terms of opening eyes to what a biracial child/adult feels and experiences as they grow up.

Disclaimer: I am personally acquainted with the author.

This was a phenomenal book. I was moved. I am not biracial, but rather bicultural, and suffer more because many look at my white face and standard American English and deny my primary culture. Again and again Sundee brought up points and ideas that I could viscerally relate to. I have experienced many of the same struggles, doubts, and sins (on my part) in response to a bicultural existence.

Sundee has an easy, honest manner of writing which connects immediately with the reader. She writes directly from her close relationship with Jesus, without pretense or preachiness, but simply from her understanding of reality. She speaks with amazing openness about her difficulties being biracial and bicultural, and the profound joy and hope that brings her as well. Throughout she weaves this into the hope set before us in Jesus Christ, and how his Kingdom ideals are intertwined into an emerging polycultural world.

Copiously foot-noted yet not oppressively so, this is a how-to manual of spiritual enlightenment. I would strongly recommend it to anyone who is biracial or bicultural. And even if you are not Christian, there is much here in the personal struggles and realizations of others like yourself that may prove greatly beneficial. Considering what's in this book, I am truly shocked that it doesn't have greater renown.

I'll check one box when it comes to this book: oustanding. As the mom of multiiracial children this book has given me insight to relate to how my kids might be feeling. And I enjoy how Frazier connects it all to faith. How can one's identity not have this connection if one believes in a Creator? I recommend this to all mulitracial people -- and everyone, for that matter. Our world grows more multiracial every day. We need to understand each other.

Great Book!! Bought it for my 26 year old son who is struggling with his black/white identity. Lot's of insight into every possible problem that comes from being interracial. Your not alone rings clear.

The religious stories and references to religion woven throughout the book got in the way of Sundee telling about her personal journey to find herself and acceptance from others. After reading the book, I was not convinced she felt successful.

The problem here is that people are born whole and they shouldn't have to find 'wholeness'. The problem is that books like this actually reinforce a feeling of being different by trying to make everyone want to fit into some racial category rather then helping people just feel like Americans and forget race. What this book fails to mention is that race is not a defining factor in life, rather it is an insignificant item that does little to make one who one is. Class and values are for more determinant.

Seth J. Frantzman