What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People

Pearl Fuyo Gaskins

Macmillan, Jun 15, 1999 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 273 pages

In the past three decades, the number of interracial marriages in the United States has increased by more than 800 percent. Now over four million children and teenagers do not identify themselves as being just one race or another.

Here is a book that allows these young people to speak in their own voices about their own lives.

What Are You? is based on the interviews the author has made over the past two years with mixed-race young people around the country. These fresh voices explore issues and topics such as dating, families, and the double prejudice and double insight that come from being mixed, but not mixed-up.

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Review: What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People

User Review  - Keri - Goodreads

Kerima McLucas Informational What are you?:Voices of mixed-race young people is a very eye-opening book. Pearl Gaskins has been able to bring together emotional, inner thoughts of many different mixed ...

Review: What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People

User Review  - Louis - Goodreads

As the White parent of biracial sons, I often wonder what my sons will experience growing up. And I often feel completely unprepared to be a parent of mixed-race children. I have studied diversity for ...

Contents

• Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People: 13
• Tyonek Glee Ogemageshig: 40
• Donna Maketa Randolph: 87
• Wasnt the Blueeyed Blondhaired Cheerleader Type: 128
• Tatsu Yamato: 164
• Oh Hes Something Else: 206
• Hapa Grub: 238

About the author

Pearl Fuyo Gaskins is an award-winning journalist whose articles frequently appear in Scholastic Choices magazine. The child of an interracial marriage, she wrote What Are You? "to be a forum for mixed-race young people to share their experiences and validate their feelings." This is her first book. Ms. Gaskins grew up in California, lived in Hawaii, and now resides with her husband in West Orange, New Jersey.

Bibliographic information

• Title: What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People
• Editor: Pearl Fuyo Gaskins
• Contributor: Pearl Fuyo Gaskins
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1999
• ISBN: 0805059687, 9780805059687
• Length: 273 pages
• Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Family / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / General; Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / Other; Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism