Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families
One of the visible effects of our increasingly diverse society is multiracial children. The New York Times has estimated that the number of those children has jumped by 300 percent since the 1970 census. In this compendium, the catalog of an award-winning exhibition that has been traveling since 1993, photographer Gigi Kaeser and interviewer Peggy Gillespie profile 39 families with multiracial children. (Kaeser and Gillespie are codirectors of Family Diversity Projects, Inc, in Amherst, Massachusetts.) By using photographs and interviews with both parents and children, the authors show us the joys and frustrations inherent in being multiracial in a country that officially recognizes only five racial categories. This book will be useful to parents who want to show the variety of family life to their children, to teachers exploring issues of race and identity, and to readers trying to understand the current proposal to add a multiracial category to the decennial census for the year 2000. Recommended for all public libraries.?Nora Harris, Corte Madera Regional Branch Lib., Cal.Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.