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Mixed Blessing: Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity
Chandra Crane has keenly felt the otherness of having a mixed multiethnic and multicultural background. But those of us with a mixed heritage have the privilege and potential to serve the Lord through our unique experiences. Crane explores what Scripture and history teach us about ethnicity, and how we can bring all of ourselves to our sense of identity and calling.
“So what are you?” Chandra Crane knows what it’s like to get that question. She has a Thai birth father, a European-American mother, and an African-American father who adopted her when she was five. With this mixed multiethnic and multicultural background, she has keenly felt the otherness of never quite fitting in. Where do people of mixed ethnicity belong? Those of us with multiethnic backgrounds may have pain surrounding our mixed heritage. But we also have the privilege and potential to serve the Lord through our unique experiences. Crane explores what Scripture and history teach us about ethnicity and how we can bring all of ourselves to our sense of identity and calling. Discover the fullness of who you are. Find out how your mixed identity can be a blessing to yourself and to the world around you.
“So what are you?” Chandra Crane knows what it’s like to get that question. She has a Thai birth father, a European-American mother, and an African-American father who adopted her when she was five. With this mixed multiethnic and multicultural background, she has keenly felt the otherness of never quite fitting in. Where do people of mixed ethnicity belong? Those of us with multiethnic backgrounds may have pain surrounding our mixed heritage. But we also have the privilege and potential to serve the Lord through our unique experiences. Crane explores what Scripture and history teach us about ethnicity and how we can bring all of ourselves to our sense of identity and calling. Discover the fullness of who you are. Find out how your mixed identity can be a blessing to yourself and to the world around you.
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February 17, 2021
Chandra Crane adds a significant perspective to current conversations about race, highlighting the experiences of multiethnic and multicultural people. She writes to them directly throughout the book, while also encouraging monoethnic people of different races to come along and join the conversation. I found this book helpful and enlightening, as it both confirmed things that I already understood about multicultural experiences and introduced different perspectives that I had never thought about before. She writes about her personal experiences, broader issues in society, and stories from other multiethnic people with a variety of different backgrounds. She also makes an effort to include voices of people who are adopted, because even though transracial adoption is not this book's focus, it complicates existing multiethnic identities and creates multicultural experiences within the family.
This book validates common experiences for people with complex cultural backgrounds and different appearances. In one chapter, Crane tells a story about how, when people at her Christian organization split up into their racial and ethnic groups to discuss the dynamics of ministry in their particular contexts, she had no idea where to go. She uses this as a metaphor for her overall experience, and later writes more about dynamics within society and the church. Her Christian perspective is mostly referential in the first parts of the book, but she fully articulates spiritual elements near the end, particularly exploring how "identity in Christ" does not erase our ethnic and cultural identities as Christians or in the church. She also mentions mixed race Bible characters at another point. I wish that she had gone into more detail about this, but she had a lot to cover.
Insightful Reflections
It is much easier to nitpick a book like this than to write it, and even though no one will agree with everything Crane says, this is an excellent conversation starter. Crane addresses lots of different issues, and even though parts of the book are repetitive, I can completely relate to repeating the same thing five times in different words in hope that someone will understand. I appreciate her willingness to explore a fraught and rarely addressed topic, and I found her reflections on cultural appropriation very insightful. I had never thought before about how someone with a mixed identity might have to deal with someone accusing them of cultural appropriation as they explore an aspect of their identity that is invisible or secondary in the eyes of others.
In relation this, she writes about the differences between stereotypes and prototypes, helping people see that it is okay to have a general, cultural sense of what a group is like, as long as it is positive, loving, and not limiting. I also appreciate how, even though she pushes back against ideas of "White normativity," she makes space for people with white roots to connect with all aspects of their heritage, rather than exclusively identifying as people of color. Even though she writes about how she has navigated white privilege within her mixed identity, she encourages people with white ethnic roots to learn about the culture that their ancestors came from.
Challenges for the Future
This book has great takeaways for monoethnic Christians, and can help church leaders, organization members, family members, and friends broaden their awareness of the world and of other people's experiences. Crane provides a fair critique of multiethnic churches and diversity ministries that focus on monethnic identities while neglecting to acknowledge or validate the experiences of people who do not fit within clearly defined racial categories, and as she writes about the "internal disconnect" that many mixed people experience, she provides examples of how important it is for people to feel welcomed in all of their fullness. I would recommend this book to any Christian who wants to better understand the challenges that multiethnic people face, and would especially encourage parents in mixed, adoptive, and multicultural blended families to read this book, so that they can be sensitive to their children's unique needs as they develop.
Conclusion
This book is thoughtful, well-written, and inclusive, sharing lots of different perspectives from people with varying backgrounds. The book cannot address every possible identity or concern, but Crane provides a strong introduction to understanding mixed identities. Different readers will have different takeaways and varying points of critique, but this book deals with a fraught and infrequently addressed topic with grace, personal insight, and kindness, and can help people of varying backgrounds think about issues of race and culture from a broader perspective.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
This book validates common experiences for people with complex cultural backgrounds and different appearances. In one chapter, Crane tells a story about how, when people at her Christian organization split up into their racial and ethnic groups to discuss the dynamics of ministry in their particular contexts, she had no idea where to go. She uses this as a metaphor for her overall experience, and later writes more about dynamics within society and the church. Her Christian perspective is mostly referential in the first parts of the book, but she fully articulates spiritual elements near the end, particularly exploring how "identity in Christ" does not erase our ethnic and cultural identities as Christians or in the church. She also mentions mixed race Bible characters at another point. I wish that she had gone into more detail about this, but she had a lot to cover.
Insightful Reflections
It is much easier to nitpick a book like this than to write it, and even though no one will agree with everything Crane says, this is an excellent conversation starter. Crane addresses lots of different issues, and even though parts of the book are repetitive, I can completely relate to repeating the same thing five times in different words in hope that someone will understand. I appreciate her willingness to explore a fraught and rarely addressed topic, and I found her reflections on cultural appropriation very insightful. I had never thought before about how someone with a mixed identity might have to deal with someone accusing them of cultural appropriation as they explore an aspect of their identity that is invisible or secondary in the eyes of others.
In relation this, she writes about the differences between stereotypes and prototypes, helping people see that it is okay to have a general, cultural sense of what a group is like, as long as it is positive, loving, and not limiting. I also appreciate how, even though she pushes back against ideas of "White normativity," she makes space for people with white roots to connect with all aspects of their heritage, rather than exclusively identifying as people of color. Even though she writes about how she has navigated white privilege within her mixed identity, she encourages people with white ethnic roots to learn about the culture that their ancestors came from.
Challenges for the Future
This book has great takeaways for monoethnic Christians, and can help church leaders, organization members, family members, and friends broaden their awareness of the world and of other people's experiences. Crane provides a fair critique of multiethnic churches and diversity ministries that focus on monethnic identities while neglecting to acknowledge or validate the experiences of people who do not fit within clearly defined racial categories, and as she writes about the "internal disconnect" that many mixed people experience, she provides examples of how important it is for people to feel welcomed in all of their fullness. I would recommend this book to any Christian who wants to better understand the challenges that multiethnic people face, and would especially encourage parents in mixed, adoptive, and multicultural blended families to read this book, so that they can be sensitive to their children's unique needs as they develop.
Conclusion
This book is thoughtful, well-written, and inclusive, sharing lots of different perspectives from people with varying backgrounds. The book cannot address every possible identity or concern, but Crane provides a strong introduction to understanding mixed identities. Different readers will have different takeaways and varying points of critique, but this book deals with a fraught and infrequently addressed topic with grace, personal insight, and kindness, and can help people of varying backgrounds think about issues of race and culture from a broader perspective.
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
June 10, 2021
Summary: The author describes her own challenges and blessings of being a person of mixed ethnic and cultural identity, and how the Christian can affirm and include the growing number of mixed identity persons.
“So what are you?” can be one of the most difficult questions for a person born of parents of different ethnicities or raised in a home with those of different ethnicities. The author has experienced this dilemma as a child of a Thai father and European-American mother raised in a home with an adoptive Black father.
Answering the question can be hard for oneself and much depends on how one has grown up. It may also depend on one’s physical appearance and the degree to which a person might pass for a particular ethnicity or represent a blend of ethnicities.
Equally difficult is how one identifies oneself to others. Some contexts do not even have a category for mixed persons. She describes a time when the ministry she works for (the same one in which I work) offered breakouts by ethnicity. She did not know where to go because there was no group for her. Eventually, an organizer who was also a mixed ethnicity person recognized her dilemma and invite her to the Asian American staff group she was a part of. And she reports how ten years later in a similar setting, there was a group for her and others like her.
One of the strengths of this work is that Crane doesn’t make her experience normative for all, nor suggest that one must stick to a particular way of framing one’s identity. She recognizes the opportunities to identify with monoethnic groups that are part of one’s ethno-cultural heritage while avoiding cultural appropriation. She suggests four different postures, any of which may be appropriate:
1. Solidarity identity. Particularly if we may look like a person of that identity, although this carries with it responsibilities to deal with privilege if one is identifying with the dominant culture.
2. Shifting identity. This especially makes sense if one has been raised bi-lingually or bi-culturally (or multiple cultures or languages). The big question is whether each identity is genuinely who one is. Such people may be real bridgebuilders.
3. Substitute identity. Sometimes the healthy choice may be in finding identity in something other than ethnicity, for example as a musician.
4. Singular identity. Some live with a both/and identity in which these blend fully. This might only be fully realized in eternity.
Crane proposes a discipleship process incorporating these postures in a three step process of prayer about ethnic formation, of exploring our ethnic identity, and of applying truths learned to one’s the Christian life.
The work centers on Christ, and observes that our incarnate Lord was of mixed descent. His family line includes Rahab the Canaanite, Bathsheba the Hittite, and Ruth the Moabite. To be in Christ as one of mixed heritage is to recognize that this indeed a blessing, that one is uniquely made and gifted by God. She deals with the critique that we should just find our identity in Christ by contending that Jesus does not submerge mixed identities but brings out their full beauty.
The book strikes a good balance of description, instruction, advocacy, and pastoral care. It reflects to me a wise person who has been on this journey for some time offering counsel and grace, especially for all who like her, are “mixed blessings” or are the parents of “mixed blessing” children. It’s an important book for me as a European American on a journey to understand and affirm and celebrate the multi-ethnic tapestry that is God’s intent for the church. Crane helps me better understand what it is like when multiple threads of that tapestry run though the life of one person. And she offers me a better question than “so what are you?” From now on I can ask “tell me about your family and how you grew up.”
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Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary review copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
“So what are you?” can be one of the most difficult questions for a person born of parents of different ethnicities or raised in a home with those of different ethnicities. The author has experienced this dilemma as a child of a Thai father and European-American mother raised in a home with an adoptive Black father.
Answering the question can be hard for oneself and much depends on how one has grown up. It may also depend on one’s physical appearance and the degree to which a person might pass for a particular ethnicity or represent a blend of ethnicities.
Equally difficult is how one identifies oneself to others. Some contexts do not even have a category for mixed persons. She describes a time when the ministry she works for (the same one in which I work) offered breakouts by ethnicity. She did not know where to go because there was no group for her. Eventually, an organizer who was also a mixed ethnicity person recognized her dilemma and invite her to the Asian American staff group she was a part of. And she reports how ten years later in a similar setting, there was a group for her and others like her.
One of the strengths of this work is that Crane doesn’t make her experience normative for all, nor suggest that one must stick to a particular way of framing one’s identity. She recognizes the opportunities to identify with monoethnic groups that are part of one’s ethno-cultural heritage while avoiding cultural appropriation. She suggests four different postures, any of which may be appropriate:
1. Solidarity identity. Particularly if we may look like a person of that identity, although this carries with it responsibilities to deal with privilege if one is identifying with the dominant culture.
2. Shifting identity. This especially makes sense if one has been raised bi-lingually or bi-culturally (or multiple cultures or languages). The big question is whether each identity is genuinely who one is. Such people may be real bridgebuilders.
3. Substitute identity. Sometimes the healthy choice may be in finding identity in something other than ethnicity, for example as a musician.
4. Singular identity. Some live with a both/and identity in which these blend fully. This might only be fully realized in eternity.
Crane proposes a discipleship process incorporating these postures in a three step process of prayer about ethnic formation, of exploring our ethnic identity, and of applying truths learned to one’s the Christian life.
The work centers on Christ, and observes that our incarnate Lord was of mixed descent. His family line includes Rahab the Canaanite, Bathsheba the Hittite, and Ruth the Moabite. To be in Christ as one of mixed heritage is to recognize that this indeed a blessing, that one is uniquely made and gifted by God. She deals with the critique that we should just find our identity in Christ by contending that Jesus does not submerge mixed identities but brings out their full beauty.
The book strikes a good balance of description, instruction, advocacy, and pastoral care. It reflects to me a wise person who has been on this journey for some time offering counsel and grace, especially for all who like her, are “mixed blessings” or are the parents of “mixed blessing” children. It’s an important book for me as a European American on a journey to understand and affirm and celebrate the multi-ethnic tapestry that is God’s intent for the church. Crane helps me better understand what it is like when multiple threads of that tapestry run though the life of one person. And she offers me a better question than “so what are you?” From now on I can ask “tell me about your family and how you grew up.”
____________________________
Disclosure of Material Connection: I received a complimentary review copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for an honest review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
December 15, 2020
Finally, someone who has written a book for those of us with multiethnic and multicultural identities (aka for us mixed folks). Chandra Crane's book, Mixed Blessing, is inspiring and equips us to better navigate the struggles as well as blessing of being multiethnic...and what that means for our own lives as well as the church. A must read!
March 8, 2021
As a person of mixed ethnic identity, i thought Chandra’s words and insight in this book were incredibly affirming. She put to words what feels common to mixed folks, yet unknown to many of who are monoethnic. I thought particularly Chandra’s insight on how to cultivate a multiethnic identity in a way that draws you closer to Jesus was helpful.
I wish Chandra spent more time in Jane Hollingsworth’s Four Posture Model. I think having stronger biblical foundation as well as naming the potential emotional unhealth and trauma that might impact how we self-identify would be really helpful, rather than communicating each identification of the model as equally helpful or restoring. I think that each identification can be helpful only if individuals are choosing to identify that way from a place of freedom and emotional health.
Also, this may be a personal preference but I didn’t agree with the notion that a mixed person should identify based on percentages (50% this and 50% that). I think it is problematic for a few reasons, one being that genetic recombination doesn’t work as cleanly as we make percentages to be. I also think it perpetuates the mulatto myth, which Chandra mentioned in the book.
But overall I think this is a helpful book both for those who identify as mixed, and those who don’t but are in community or relationship with people who are.
I wish Chandra spent more time in Jane Hollingsworth’s Four Posture Model. I think having stronger biblical foundation as well as naming the potential emotional unhealth and trauma that might impact how we self-identify would be really helpful, rather than communicating each identification of the model as equally helpful or restoring. I think that each identification can be helpful only if individuals are choosing to identify that way from a place of freedom and emotional health.
Also, this may be a personal preference but I didn’t agree with the notion that a mixed person should identify based on percentages (50% this and 50% that). I think it is problematic for a few reasons, one being that genetic recombination doesn’t work as cleanly as we make percentages to be. I also think it perpetuates the mulatto myth, which Chandra mentioned in the book.
But overall I think this is a helpful book both for those who identify as mixed, and those who don’t but are in community or relationship with people who are.
August 12, 2022
Although I am not mixed, as a transracial adoptee much of what Chandra wrote about resonated with me. As a mother of two mixed children, I’m grateful to have read this.
“Being honest about grief can foster places of connection, belonging, and rest for us mixed folks. As Soong-Chan Rah explains, to avoid hollow triumphalism, we must not fall into the trap that plagues so much of the White American church. As we examine the stories that the Bible tells, and as we seek to locate our own stories within biblical context, “to only have a theology of celebration at the cost of the theology of suffering is incomplete. The intersection of the two threads provides the opportunity to engage in the fullness of the gospel message. Lament and praise must go hand in hand.” Before other folks can love us well, they must listen to and lament with us. Before we can love ourselves well, we must do the same.”
“Being honest about grief can foster places of connection, belonging, and rest for us mixed folks. As Soong-Chan Rah explains, to avoid hollow triumphalism, we must not fall into the trap that plagues so much of the White American church. As we examine the stories that the Bible tells, and as we seek to locate our own stories within biblical context, “to only have a theology of celebration at the cost of the theology of suffering is incomplete. The intersection of the two threads provides the opportunity to engage in the fullness of the gospel message. Lament and praise must go hand in hand.” Before other folks can love us well, they must listen to and lament with us. Before we can love ourselves well, we must do the same.”
January 26, 2022
I think this is an important book for people to read, mixed or not. It gave a shared experience for mixed people. Doing this book in book club was great because we were able to model the book in creating a mixed space. I will admit it’s a tad wordy. I feel like the concepts I didn’t care too much about she over explained and the concepts I did care about were skimmed over. This is a great book to paint a picture of what multiethnic community looks like and how to locate our experiences as mixed people. However I would love more of a follow up on the practical side of things rather than just the vision for it.
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December 25, 2020In this book, Crane provides a detailed description of what it's like living as a mixed (multi-ethnic) individual. She describes the sense of otherness we experience when others try to "identify" and categorize us, the tension in having to choose between ethnicities in various instances, and the pressure to fit in/prove that we belong. Crane's words serve mostly to validate the experience of mixed individuals, but throughout the book she also calls monoethnic individuals to see and love mixed individuals well - both personally and coporately in the church - in light of the experiences she describes. At points, it was a little difficult to follow the flow of the book, as the chapters weren't very linear but rather just a conglomeration of ideas. Nevertheless, I think Crane did a wonderful job of describing the mixed experience. Her words were both validating to us mixed individuals and enlightening to monoethnic individuals. This is a valuable resource to both mixed and monoethnic people seeking to understand how to honor and celebrate muliethnicity.
December 13, 2020
In the U.S., we often think of race and ethnicity only in terms of the Black/White binary. We may occasionally give a thought to Asians or Hispanics/Latinos (especially if there's a hot immigration story in the news or, you know, a pandemic that originated in Asia), but those of us who belong to the majority White culture, and even many monoethnic minorities, don't often have a category in our minds for those who don't fit neatly into one racial or ethnic box. This book addresses that void and is a great addition to our society's long overdue reckoning with race and ethnicity. This book can help multiethnic readers feel seen (in some cases for the first time). I love that Chandra Crane includes the stories of multiethnic people from a range of backgrounds and combinations of ethnicities. For readers, like me, who are monocultural, it provides a window into the experiences of our brother and sisters who are, as Chandra Crane puts it "people of multiethnicity" and can spur us to greater compassion and understanding. Ultimately, she points the reader to Jesus as both the author of our ethnicity in all its beautiful diversity and the source of wholeness for those who feel lost in the sea of ethnic and racial tension. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to explore questions of race and ethnicity from a Christian worldview.
February 25, 2021
As a monoethnic woman who has been blessed by many multiethnic and mixed friends, and is an aunt to a mixed and adoptive nephew, I am beyond grateful to have Chandra Crane’s Mixed Blessing book in my life. I’ve learned much from not only Crane’s personal sharing, but the stories of many different mixed individuals she shares the stage with in her book. I wish I had these insights years ago when searching for how to navigate the internal questions I’ve pondered on how to sensitively engage with those in my life who are mixed. I’m glad that this book exists now so I can pass it along to the mixed and monoethnic people in my life who are wrestling with similar questions now.
December 20, 2020
I loved Chandra's work, her words, her honesty and vulnerability, and the way she held the sacred stories of others. Mixed Blessing was so very beautiful. It was a challenging read that provided hope as well. I appreciated how Chandra weaved in the image of the multiethnic Christ and his lineage through various women. I was also grateful for all Chandra included about the Christian church as she paved a better way forward full of grace-laced truth communicated in love. I highly recommend reading Mixed Blessing.
December 1, 2020
As an adoptive dad to three boys, two of which are "mixed blessings", I just loved the book. Informative but very readable (I laughed and shed tears while reading). While this book does a fantastic job at serving multi-ethnic individuals, I would still recommend it to majority culture people like myself. I feel like everyone could be better equipped in how to love our neighbors as ourselves by reading this book.
April 19, 2023
Wow, I couldn’t put this book down. This book was recommended to me by a friend and I am so glad. I found myself crying at various points of this book as I felt so seen and valued through the pages of this book. Growing up mixed, I have struggled so much with my ethic identity. I have never felt hispanic enough, and never fit in with white culture. I have been called slurs of all kinds, many that weren’t even accurate to my ethnicity. I have been mocked for not knowing spanish, and bullied for my hair. I have felt fetishized by both peers and elders, and I have struggled to reconcile that despite all that I have experienced so much white privilege in this life. I have seen as my mother has faced both brutal micro aggressions, and even physical assault and abuse because of the color of her skin, all the while I have frequently passed in ways that have welcomed privilege and support from the majority. I have felt pressure to tan more to feel “more Mexican” and found myself applying extra sunscreen to avoid getting darker.
This book was so impactful and healing. I believe everyone should add this book to their list of books on ethnicity. Chandra Crane has done a beautiful job of painting the gospel necessity of all people embracing their imago dei identity. I am so glad I read this.
This book was so impactful and healing. I believe everyone should add this book to their list of books on ethnicity. Chandra Crane has done a beautiful job of painting the gospel necessity of all people embracing their imago dei identity. I am so glad I read this.
April 3, 2021
I loved Chandra's work, her words, her honesty and vulnerability, and the way she held the sacred stories of others. Mixed Blessing was so very beautiful. It was a challenging read that provided hope as well. I appreciated how Chandra weaved in the image of the multiethnic Christ and his lineage through various women. I was also grateful for all Chandra included about the Christian church as she paved a better way forward full of grace-laced truth communicated in love. I highly recommend reading Mixed Blessing.
April 29, 2024
I think this book is definitely beneficial for anyone who wants to understand mixed race identity, especially those are friends or significant others to mixed race people. As someone who is black/white biracial, I found many parts of this book as affirming and definitely took away more resources to look into. That said, I am not entirely sure where I stand when it comes to some of the scriptural conclusions. I do appreciate the points and do think that the book is worthwhile as a read, even if you come away disagreeing with it.
November 1, 2022
As a multiethnic pastor, I wish I had this book years ago. Since coming to faith in Jesus I have been very interested in the intersection of faith and ethnicity, but before this book I had yet to find a substantial theological treatment of ethnicity that came from a non-monoethnic perspective. While I didn’t agree with everything in the book, I would highly recommend this book for all ministers and multiethnic Christians.
February 9, 2023
Finally someone gets it! Felt so understood and so many things make more sense after someone puts into words what you've been feeling for years. At times she may be a bit too verbose for my liking but please read it, you won't regret it. If you're not multiethnic, even more so as it can help you understand those that are or at the very least, learn how to relate to them in a way that is more uplifting.
January 22, 2021
This book is an intellectual exploration of the spiritual journey of ethnically mixed people. The author has rigorously researched the topic academically and Biblically. I was both challenged and encouraged by each chapter. I am not mixed myself, but my husband and children are, and I found information that will help me support and encourage them.
March 21, 2021
I learned so much from this book. Chandra Crane offers perspective and depth about the experiences of multiethnic and multiracial groups. I found Chandra Crane’s writing style personable and engaging. This book is enlightening and informative and a needed (and often overlooked) perspective in the conversation about race and racial issues.
October 12, 2022
Oh my gosh. Where has this book been all my life?
Many thanks to Chandra Crane for this incredibly sensitive, empathetic, thoughtful, convicting, and wise book. This book just has so much love for Jesus’ multicultural and multiethnic peoples, and simultaneously points us back to Him and His love and Word.
This is a gift and is going to leave me thinking about its themes for a long time.
Many thanks to Chandra Crane for this incredibly sensitive, empathetic, thoughtful, convicting, and wise book. This book just has so much love for Jesus’ multicultural and multiethnic peoples, and simultaneously points us back to Him and His love and Word.
This is a gift and is going to leave me thinking about its themes for a long time.
November 20, 2021
Well-written, thoughtful, deep, and practical. The author has produced a book that is accessible to those thinking about this topic for the first time while at the same time helping those who are further along in the conversation deepen their understanding and experience.
March 13, 2021
Chandra Crane's book was eye opening to me. I recommend this book to anyone - both people who come from a multiethnic background, and those who are simply seeking to understand.
May 5, 2021
Thankful for this book. I really needed to hear about God's message about us mixed brothers and sisters.
June 3, 2021
I felt heard and understood as a mixed person.
August 26, 2022
4.5 stars. Insightful viewpoint. Glad the author provides a different perspective into the important topic toward healing our racial divide. I recommend this book.
March 12, 2023
Really helpful book. Helpful to understand biracial or mixed people - which is an increasing demographic... and includes my kids.
But also helpful to understand my own experience as a brown person living among mostly white people and ministering to others from different cultures.
I especially liked the perspective on Jesus being mixed.
And the stories of people who have felt torn or left out, including the authors own story. The book recounts times of being left out, not considered being marginalzed without being condescending or bitter.
Highly recommended
But also helpful to understand my own experience as a brown person living among mostly white people and ministering to others from different cultures.
I especially liked the perspective on Jesus being mixed.
And the stories of people who have felt torn or left out, including the authors own story. The book recounts times of being left out, not considered being marginalzed without being condescending or bitter.
Highly recommended
June 18, 2022
Mixed Blessing did what few books are able to do—provide a compelling personal narrative, mix it with solid research and interesting anecdotes, all the while rounding it out with a strong theology on the topic. For those of us who aren’t mixed, this book grants the reader an intimate picture of how the mixed reality not only helps us better love people, but also better understand the God who knows and created mixed folks.
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