{"product_id":"mixed-roots-isbn-9780807021361","title":"Mixed Roots","description":"\u003cb\u003e29 personal essays exploring mixed identity, belonging, family, racism, community and the paradoxical ways of being in the world\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMixed people carry lifelong embodied knowledge about existing in non-binary, intersectional worlds. \u003ci\u003eMixed Roots\u003c\/i\u003e presents 29 personal essays that complicate the narrative around race and identity—dispelling narrow ideas that there is ever one “right” or singular way for folks to identify.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn out of a community of writers formed through editor Anne Liu Kellor’s annual writing workshop, \u003ci\u003eMixed Roots\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with pieces infused with a deep examination of privilege, microaggressions, whiteness, ancestral trauma, internalized racism, and paradoxical truths—going beyond common tropes found in many mixed-race narratives. Highlighting various Asian, Black, Native, Latine, and Arab mixed voices from writers ranging from their 20s to 70s, \u003ci\u003eMixed Roots\u003c\/i\u003e invites more multiracial and mixed roots people in to actively contribute to the dialogue around race, whether or not they publicly identify as “mixed.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful collection of personal truths and cultural insight, \u003ci\u003eMixed Roots \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how community and narrative can be useful tools to see how alike we are. We all carry in our bodies the historical legacies, confusion, trauma, and harm caused by racialized experiences—\u003ci\u003eMixed Roots\u003c\/i\u003e says we are multilayered, not easily defined or contained by one story, and as such, can speak to us all.“Each writer within this anthology boldly charts their own path to belonging. But the true magic forms in the broader chorus, where voices who have never felt a ‘we’ write themselves into collective lineage. Refusing to be defined by categories that have never encompassed the complexity of who we are, \u003ci\u003eMixed Roots\u003c\/i\u003e anchors itself in both history and gratitude for the ones whose stories paved the way for us, while opening new paths of possibility for the ones who will follow. This anthology is a gift for anyone who lives within the both\/and.”\u003cbr\u003e—Tessa Hulls, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and artist of \u003ci\u003eFeeding Ghosts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Liu Kellor\u003c\/b\u003e is a mixed-race Chinese American writer, editor, and teacher based in Seattle. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eHeart Radical: A Search for Language, Love, and Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e, was a 2021 IPPY Winner and Washington State Book Award finalist. Kellor's essays have appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eMemoir Land, Longreads, New England Review, Fourth Genre, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e YES! Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She loves supporting other writers through her work as a facilitator of online creative nonfiction classes, workshops for multiracial people, and a yearlong nonfiction manuscript program for women and non-binary writers. You can learn more at: www.anneliukellor.com","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532169588965,"sku":"NP9780807021361","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807021361.jpg?v=1773182921","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/mixed-roots-isbn-9780807021361","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}