Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege

Ellis Hurd, Ed.D. (2008), is Professor of Education at Illinois State University. He has published on education, equity and cultural responsiveness, and mixed identities, and is co-editor of Equity and Cultural Responsiveness in the Middle Grades (Information Age Publishing, 2019).

“A groundbreaking and thoughtful collection of narratives, essays, and poems on challenges that arise for individuals of mixed race identity at different stages of development. Drawing on the experiences of an international collection of scholars, these artifacts remind us that in a world where race and ethnic identities are often used to confer power and privilege, those who occupy hybrid spaces because of their status as ‘mixed’ people, often have unique insights into how these social constructions of identity play out in everyday life. Illuminating and thought provoking, this book will serve as a useful guide to anyone who seeks to understand why race and ethnicity continue to matter so much in modern society.”~Pedro A. Noguera, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Education, University of California, Los Angeles

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsThe Homily of Pain and Privilege: Understanding the Need for a Discourse on Mixed IdentityEllis HurdPart 1: Exploring the Reflexivity of Pain and Privilege1. Navigating the Ambiguity of Mixed Identity as Chinese-IndonesianDian Mitrayani2. The Unbearable Whiteness of BeingCristina Santamaría Graff3. Stepping towards Healing about Learning Disability at Our Intersectionality: How Learning Disability Pain and Privilege Structured Our Schooling ExperiencesLisa A. Boskovich and David I. Hernández-SacaPart 2: Supporting Youth with Marginalized Identities4. The Unidentified Nationality: Navigating Middle School as a Third Culture KidHwa Pyung Yoo5. Mis RootsPaloma E. Villegas6. A Different Kind of Asian PersuasionSusan Y. Leonard7. Transformative Consciousness Raising QuestionsHannah R. StohryPart 3: Exploring the Convergences of Identity and Cultural Responsiveness8. Will I Ever Be Enough? An African Louisiana Creole’s Narrative on Race, Ethnicity, and BelongingRaymond Adams9. SikaJessica SamuelsPart 4: Interrelated Homilies (Movements) of Mixed Identity: An International Lens10. Being Ambiguously Brown in Africa: An Autoethnography of Biracial Identity in Three ActsLynnette Mawhinney11. Identity Perceptions of Youth in Middle and High-School: Beyond Being MestizoMariana Leon and Guillermina de Gracia12. Bordered Lives: An Autoethnography of Transnational PrecarityFrancisco J. Villegas and Paloma E. Villegas13. The Ubiquitous Rank: Some Reflections on Walking on Thin IceAnne RyenPart 5: On Being Mixed and Moving Forward14. Raising Consciousness for Multi-Racial Third Culture KidsHannah R. Stohry15. Resisting Learning Disabilty Oppression: Healing through Dis/Ability VoiceDavid I. Hernández-Saca16. Poems on Being Mixed and Moving ForwardLisa A. Boskovich17. Walking the LineIman FaganPart 6: Conclusion18. The Untold Future of Being Mixed: Moving Forward While Remembering What Is BehindEllis Hurd