Product Description

Being multiracial is an honor. But it doesn't always feel that way. Sometimes we wonder where we fit, who our community is and who can understand us. When faced with a form that requires us to check an ethnicity, we sometimes feel like "none of the above."

But God loves multiracial people and interracial families. There is a special place for us in God's plan. God wants to give us a sense of wholeness and worth as a person made in God's very likeness.

This book will help us to understand the experiences that make up who we are and to connect with the experiences of others like us. It will make clear the challenges and pitfalls of the journey but also reveal the path to new life. There's help here in developing ethnic identity, better understanding family of origin, even figuring out who to marry! Most of all, we'll gain a sense of God's purpose for us. For those who aren't multiracial but know someone who is, this book will give insight into a child, spouse or friend.

Living joyfully as a multiracial person means finding the hope and courage to Check All That Apply and embrace all of who we are.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #244664 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 199 pages

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.

Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Great book
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.

Very insightful
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.

Much needed for the multiracial community
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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