Mixed Roots
Writers on Multiracial Identity & Both/And Belonging
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Mixed people carry lifelong embodied knowledge about existing in non-binary, intersectional worlds. Mixed Roots presents 29 personal essays that complicate the narrative around race and identity—dispelling narrow ideas that there is ever one “right” or singular way for folks to identify.
Born out of a community of writers formed through editor Anne Liu Kellor’s annual writing workshop, Mixed Roots is filled with pieces infused with a deep examination of privilege, microaggressions, whiteness, ancestral trauma, internalized racism, and paradoxical truths—going beyond common tropes found in many mixed-race narratives. Highlighting various Asian, Black, Native, Latine, and Arab mixed voices from writers ranging from their 20s to 70s, Mixed Roots invites more multiracial and mixed roots people in to actively contribute to the dialogue around race, whether or not they publicly identify as “mixed.”
A powerful collection of personal truths and cultural insight, Mixed Roots reveals how community and narrative can be useful tools to see how alike we are. We all carry in our bodies the historical legacies, confusion, trauma, and harm caused by racialized experiences—Mixed Roots says we are multilayered, not easily defined or contained by one story, and as such, can speak to us all.
Critic reviews
“Each writer within this anthology boldly charts their own path to belonging. But the true magic forms in the broader chorus, where voices who have never felt a ‘we’ write themselves into collective lineage. Refusing to be defined by categories that have never encompassed the complexity of who we are, Mixed Roots anchors itself in both history and gratitude for the ones whose stories paved the way for us, while opening new paths of possibility for the ones who will follow. This anthology is a gift for anyone who lives within the both/and.”
—Tessa Hulls, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and artist of Feeding Ghosts
“I was moved beyond words from the first pages of this book and by every essay that followed. An unprecedented ode to the wide range of mixed-root experiences and what is shared across difference. Required reading for anyone who has ever been asked what are you? I want everyone to read this.”
—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood and The Dry Season
“Evocative, nuanced, and brimming with heart, Mixed Roots illuminates the mixed-race experience in all its kaleidoscopic wonder. This collection of essays straddles identities and worlds and yet is grounded in deeply universal truths. It takes the familiar quandary of never feeling ‘enough’ and offers something far less commonplace: In these stories, I felt like I’d come home.”
—Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of Transplants
“Whatever confusion or ache you’ve experienced, residing in the land of in-between, you will find camaraderie within these pages. An existential homecoming for the soul.”
—Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of Mexican Enough and Art Above Everything
—Tessa Hulls, Pulitzer Prize–winning author and artist of Feeding Ghosts
“I was moved beyond words from the first pages of this book and by every essay that followed. An unprecedented ode to the wide range of mixed-root experiences and what is shared across difference. Required reading for anyone who has ever been asked what are you? I want everyone to read this.”
—Melissa Febos, author of Girlhood and The Dry Season
“Evocative, nuanced, and brimming with heart, Mixed Roots illuminates the mixed-race experience in all its kaleidoscopic wonder. This collection of essays straddles identities and worlds and yet is grounded in deeply universal truths. It takes the familiar quandary of never feeling ‘enough’ and offers something far less commonplace: In these stories, I felt like I’d come home.”
—Daniel Tam-Claiborne, author of Transplants
“Whatever confusion or ache you’ve experienced, residing in the land of in-between, you will find camaraderie within these pages. An existential homecoming for the soul.”
—Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of Mexican Enough and Art Above Everything
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