I love everything about the Hapa Project. This is a great edition for younger kids.

I hate to think that anyone would feel less at home in this world just because they defy easy categorization. We should feel proud of who we are, especially our ethnic backgrounds. The children in this book share this sense of pride. You can see it in their faces, their artwork, and the words that they use to describe themselves. They’re wonderful representatives of a diverse and growing community.

I am in a interracial relationship so when I spotted this book I knew it was a must buy. We do not have children yet, but already it has proven useful. When my niece and nephew look through it they love seeing kids that look like them as well as different. It has taught them that even when people look like them, they still have very different backgrounds. It is a valuable tool to spark discussion with little ones about culture and heritage. It made them very interested in exploring their own!

Can't say enough how much I love this book.

A delightful, compact book of color photographs featuring multiracial children, some of whom are a veritable jambalaya of cultures (Cambodian-French-Romanian-Scottish-Native American-African American, anyone???). These lovely faces remind me of the many kids I see at work and walking down the street. It is a good reminder, too, never to take a face at...well, face value. There may be a lot more to the person underneath.

This is part of my research for the new blog THE MIX (www.mixemag.wordpress.com). I will review it and others about mixed ancestry this year.

Parents' Personal Reflections Paired with Children's Portraits to Highlight the Diversity & Challenges of Multiracial ExperienceMixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids by Kip Fulbeck is a photo essay on the many "faces" of multiracial ethnicity. The author strove to offer kids a chance "to define themselves" in their photos. The book includes a few of their written comments.It also includes commentary from many parents which addresses their personal life experiences around their own racial mixtures...

It was fun to flip through this though I think it was less interesting, less funny, less touching... I guess for me just a generally lesser version of Part Asian, 100% Hapa.

This is a book that has been on my to be owned list for a while and when it finally arrived in the mail today I was over the moon and of course re-read the whole thing in one setting. So what makes this book so amazing?Well if some of you somehow missed this news flash, I am mixed. And I am married to a man who does not share the same racial heritage as me. So our kids will be even more mixed. Mexican, Native American, German, Caucasian, Irish, Austrian, Czech and Prussian to be exact.Growing up...

Beautiful portraits of some beautiful kids!

Got this for my 7 yr old daughter (who loves Part Asian 100% Hapa). She recently told me that one of her secrets is that she is part Korean. She said she doesn't want people to find out and think she's weird. Oh, how that made my heart twinge! Being mixed myself, I can understand how she feels but want her to embrace who she is. This book is a great visual to show all the different mixes and I think it's especially great that it's all pictures of children. My daughter found it very interesting &...

This is the book I wish I'd had as a kid! I want to give it to all my friends who have mixed-race children.

A beautiful collection of photos and stories of American kids of mixed ethnicities. Adorable, heartening, fascinating, smart. Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng's (President Obama's sister) foreword makes this more than just a pretty book - it's a place to see ourselves and our future.

As western cultural identities burst at the seams with demand after demand for more (rather, better) representative media for individuals of diverse ethnic origin or background, part of the challenge is to realize how overlooked the efforts of books such as these happen to be. Offering multi-ethnic children a glimpse of themselves is nowhere near as common as it should be.MIXED: PORTRAITS OF MULTIRACIAL KIDS entered my reading list for a handful of reasons. I'm a writer of minority ethnicity. I

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Who couldn't love these photos of adorable kids? There is a picture of a child with the child's name and heritages listed. Occasionally there was a note or drawing from the child or a message from the child's parent. Some quibbles: I didn't think there were enough pictures of teenagers. (It doesn't list ages, but I think there was just very few.) So this book won't really help give your awkward teenager self-confidence.The skin tones of the kids seemed to be lighter rather than darker. There wer...

I liked looking at the photos. It was cool to see how many of the kids claimed Filipino heritage. It's too bad that the editors allowed the use of "Caucasian" as an ethnic identity--I realize they were allowing parents and kids to self-identify, but such a problematic and inaccurate designation tells us even less than "mixed European ancestry" would. Overall, an okay book that does important work in exploring ideas about race and identity, but it's the kind of project that these days would be be...

Beautiful portraits and beautiful stories. I was so glad to find this new book by the author of Part Asian, 100% Hapa, that I bought it right away! Usually I wait until books appear at my local used bookstore or check them out of the library.

Started reading this one while my awesome friendly neighborhood children's librarian was getting it ready to go out on the shelf. Beautiful photos, interesting little snippets of writing. It's time to recognize that we are all mixed, that you can't tell what someone is by looking at them, that a single label is neither accurate nor useful. I remember adding a check box for "human" on forms in the 80s.It was interesting to be reading Mixed and Shiksa at the same time. Soetero-Ng talks about bein...

The introduction by Dr. Maya Soetoro-ng (President Barack Obama's sister)is maybe even better than the book chock full of adorable kids. Just sayin'.