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As interracial couples become biracial families, parents experience unique concerns and challenges. This chapter explores how parents with biracial children navigate parenting as they blend cultural beliefs and practices and seek to protect and prepare their children for success. We discuss the ethnic identity of mixed-race children, racial and cultural socialization in mixed-race families, navigating extended family relationships, external pressures and perceptions of mixed families, and mixed-race parenting beyond the black-white binary. We conclude this chapter by identifying gaps in the literature and making suggestions for future research, as well as providing guiding principles that reflect the practice implications of the research we have presented and discussed.

My eight year-old son, Sebastian, is Guyanese, Japanese and white. Among his nearly all-white classmates, he’s perceived as a dark-skinned boy. The color he chooses for self-portraits drawn in school are always 2 or 3 shades darker than his actual skin color. On his all-black basketball team, he’s called the light-skinned team member. In our Puerto Rican family (I remarried a Puerto Rican man) he looks Puerto Rican. Sitting next to me, it’s clear that he’s part Asian.

While Sebastian can’t fully process these racial identity realities yet, this ambiguity, this fluidity, is a common experience among racially mixed people. To borrow from W.E.B. Du Bois’ notion of “double consciousness,” many racially mixed people learn to see themselves through their own eyes and through the eyes of others.

—Excerpt from “5 things to know if you love a mixed race kid” by Sara-Momii Roberts (Roberts, 2016, June 7)

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    Although not explicitly defined, it can be surmised that Chang’s definition of Asian is broad, encompassing all people from the large geographic region known as Asia.

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