Authors of Generation Mixed Goes to School in the South Seattle Emerald on writing their book

Title: Generation Mixed Goes to School
Author(s): Ralina L. Joseph, Allison Briscoe-Smith
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 9780807765326 Pages: 192 Year: 2021

As they began research for Generation Mixed, Joseph and Briscoe-Smith started with one outline, but they ended up scrapping it. Joseph, a professor of communications at the University of Washington and critical mixed-race scholar, and Briscoe-Smith, a child psychologist and professor at the Wright Institute, originally planned on writing a book about mixed-race kids presented in a challenges-and-solutions format. The foundation of their own academic work, lived experience, and experience raising mixed-race children was an intuitive starting point as they began brainstorming the book in the fall of 2018. What they ended up hearing from mixed-race kids throughout their research, however, prompted them to go in a different direction.

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