I'm taking a weekend-break from the history lessons and return on Monday with new profiles of historical figures in celebration of Mixed Experience History Month.
Today, I hope you'll go over and read about what Kohana at Growing Family has to say about questions she suddenly had when dancing with her adopted black/biracial son to James Brown "I'm Black and I'm Proud." She writes: ". . . I guess I'm saying that I'm trying to affirm the idea of being black, in hopes that when Small Sun starts to realize he is black, he'll know it's a good thing. At this point, I think I'll continue to wait until he's asking before I start explaining why we don't 'match'. I guess I'll just have to start singing 'Say it loud, he's black, I'm proud' next time we're grooving with James Brown." What I love most about Kohana's blog is that she is constantly questioning these small moments when we LIVE difference. These small moments have meaning in the larger way we think about race and racial difference. I am a big fan; I think you will be too.
Another blog I love to read is Raising Latte Baby, read about a white mom who is consciously raising her biracial daughter.
