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Series Foreword?James A. Banks?x
Preface?xv
Introduction: ?It?s hard speaking about race? .? .? .? especially when you?re mixed because there are so many sides!??1
Radical Listening as Theory: Creating a Children-and-Youth-Based Frame?3
Radical Listening as Method and Intervention: Collecting and Sharing Stories?7
Who We Interviewed?10
Language, Terminology, and Radical Listening as Epistemology?13
Grounding Our Work in Critical Mixed Race Studies?15
We Hope You Will Listen to Our Book?20
Radical Listening with Your Critical Friend?23
1.?From (G)race to Race: Racial Identity Development and Mixed-Race Kids?25
How Do You Understand Race??26
Radical Listening Exercise: Remembering Race, Listening to Race?27
Seeing Difference/Hearing Difference?28
Difference as Bad Versus Difference as Special?30
Children?s Brains and Race?32
What About Your Friends??35
What About Your Siblings??38
Racial Socialization?40
2.?Changing Team(s): Mixed Kids? Agency in Choosing, Moving, and Sticking with Racialized Identities?44
But First, a Radical Listening Exercise in Salient Identities?46
Racial Identity Development Meets Mixed-Race Kids?47
The Psychology of Mixed-Race Kids and Racialized Choice?51
Supporting Mixed-Race Kids in Racial Identity Even When They Don?t ?Make the Team??56
Checking the Box?58
(Sometimes) Choosing Whiteness: White Adjacency?60
Radically Listening to Mixed-Race Identities?62
Listening to Racial Identity Development?64
3.??He Didn?t Even Know My Name?: Singling Out Mixed-Race Kids Through the Forces of Implicit Bias?66
Assessing Your Own Implicit Bias: A Radical Listening Exercise?69
Choking on the Smog of Implicit Bias?71
Media and the Smog?75
Smog Kills?77
Implicit Bias and Mixed-Race Kids?79
Perceptual Ambiguity, Cognitive Depletion, and Mixed-Race Kids?83
A Closing Dilemma, and a Caveat?86
4.??Relationship Is Key?: How Teachers Are Radically Listening to Mixed-Race Kids in Schools?89
School Climate?91
Affinity Groups: Forging Mixed-Race Kinship in School?92
Radical Listening Activity: Affinity Group Time?96
Centering Students? Voices in the Classroom to Foster Positive Relationships?97
Deepening Relationships in the Classroom: Expectations and Accountability in Relationships?98
Wise Feedback?99
Empathy?101
Student Connectedness?103
An Example That Works: GREET-STOP-PROMPT?104
Sharing Who We Are with Our Students?106
Interrupting Racism for Positive Relationships?109
?Teachers, I Want You to Know?.?.?.?I Think It Starts with Education??111
5.??We Were Taught?: Family Practices of Radical Listening, Positive Friction, and Talking Race?113
Friction Without Positivity: Refuting a Child?s Racialized Identity?115
Listen to Your Child Even When You Don?t Think They ?Look? Like How They Identify?118
Performing Color Blindness: On Not Listening to Race Talk?122
Being Vulnerable with Your Children?125
Providing Role Models for Mixed-Race Children?126
The Work: Parents Bringing Radical Listening into School?128
Radical Listening Exercise: Race, Listening, and Family Mission Statements?131
Coda: ?I Just Raise My Hand All the Time?: Keep Listening and Talking with and for Generation Mixed?134
Appendix A: Generation Mixed Dialogue Questions?139
Appendix B: Generation Mixed Participants?141
Appendix C: Sample Guide to Affinity Groups?143
Appendix D: Table Describing GREET-STOP-PROMPT Practices ?146
References?148
Index?162
About the Authors?174
