Multiracial Parents

Miri Song’s Multiracial Parents …. is a long-overdue addition to the sociological literature in mixed race studies. Multiracial Parents makes an invaluable contribution to the sociology of race and ethnicity, mixed-race studies, and race and ethnic studies more generally, as well as the sociology of the family and social psychology. Song’s book would be an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate courses as well as for interested readers in the general public. -- American Journal of Sociology
Miri Song in Multiracial Parents examines multiracial people as parents and how they racially socialize their children, including whether a multiracial identity is passed down to the next generation… Song argues that the prevalence of multiracial parents labeling their children as mixed reflects generational continuity in multiracial identity and mixed-ness gaining purchase in Britain. She also challenges the notion that a multiracial label signals an attempt by mixed race people to distance themselves from their minority status, as many parents actively maintained or revitalized their minority heritage through their parenting practices. -- Qualitative Sociology
Song raises critical issues about the varying structures of race, racism, and the demise and persistence of ethnicity and race as meaningful categories due to differential histories including relationships to slavery, colonialism, nationalism, religion, and indigeneity. * Journal of Asian American Research *
A novel and searching look at how mixed race people contemplate and confront parenthood. Though their circumstances may seem unique, Song compellingly shows how their experiences and reflections speak volumes about how race is more widely understood. Questions of appearance, community, racism, and ancestry may take on particular forms for multiracial parents, but their power and poignancy clearly derive from the weight they hold for all of us -- Ann Morning,Author of The Nature of Race: How Scientists Think and Teach about Human Difference
A rich account of the complexities of racially classifying mixed-race children. Song strikes at the heart of where mixed-race identity and its variants - such as to identify as White or non-White - are formed. By following parents accounts, this innovative and important book helps us understand an important dimension of a world of increasing ethnoracial diversity. -- Edward E. Telles,Author of Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America
An insightful study that illuminates a neglected group: multiracial parents who are raising children. We learn how second-generation multiracials conceptualize and negotiate the meaning of race, racism, and the identity formation of their children. -- France Winddance Twine,Author of A White Side of Black Britain: Interracial Intimacy and Racial Literacy