It’s Not All Black and White: Multiracial Youth Speak Out
By St. Stephen’s Community
House
Publication date: Sept 1,
2012
I’ve often felt that we
don’t talk about race enough in our society. Despite the progress we’ve made since the civil rights era
of the last century, we still have little check boxes on all of our job
applications and standardized tests that attempt to classify us by the color of
our skin. The challenge is that so
many of us don’t fit neatly into little check boxes. We are a little of this and a little of that combined to
make up a unique individual. That
is what I loved about this wonderful little book published by Annick
Press. It’s a collection of essays
and poems by multiracial young people written during an ongoing project at the
St. Stephen’s Community House in Toronto.
It is definitely a book for older teens due to the language, but it is a
wonderful, raw, real, emotional, and insightful view of growing up with
multiple racial identities. For
parents raising multiracial teens or school libraries, this is a terrific
resource.
