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

Pearl Fuyo Gaskins (Author), Pearl Fuyo Gaskins (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Henry Holt & Company (15 Jun 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0805059687
  • ISBN-13: 978-0805059687
  • Product Dimensions: 22.3 x 13.9 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 215,107 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a wonderful book about youth, growing up and fitting in. It is also happens to be about race.

That is ethos of this book: "I am a young person getting on with my life, I also happen to be mixed race".

If disillusioned, mixed-race readers of this book come away with that conclusion, then it has the power to help a whole generation of confused adolescents.

The thoughts and feelings of the subjects are expertly edited so that you still feel honesty and opinion and the naiivety of youth.

I only wish that there was a book like this about kids in the UK where the pressure to submit to being purely British is even stronger than the pressures experience in America.

I also wish I could have read it 10 years ago! Growing up can be very lonely!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Not Alone 26 July 1999
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Format:Hardcover
This was a comforting book for me to read; I only wish I had read it years before. Gaskins offers only slight commentary or explanation on the issues surrounding being multi-racial, so don't look to this book for answers or judgements. What it offers is the chance to hear a wide range of voices from disparate people who have eerily all shared very similar experiences.

The worst part of being multi-racial is the feeling that you are alone. If you're a member of another minority, even though you may experience horrible racism there is the comfort of knowing that they are others like you who are treated the same way. As a multi-racial person there is no feeling of having a "people". We have no community, no role-models, no intuition that we're not the only one of our kind in the world. I took joy in reading this book and realizing that they were more of us out there than I had realized.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A wonderful book which brought me both hope and sadness. To read these accounts of young mixed race people showed me that my own experiences are shared by others and that I'm not the only one who finds that most people seem to struggle with the idea of someone being mixed race. Mixed race people challenge the constructed racial boundaries which history and context have created and cause discomfort for those who like to put everybody in boxes. Some accounts are positive, some are sad, but I am happy to be a part of a human experience which refuses to be nailed down. A really lovely read.
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