Mixed Blessing - by Chandra Crane (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>Chandra 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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"So what are you?" </strong>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"<em>Mixed Blessing</em> reminds us that people are not created for boxes but for God's glory. This book helps fill an inexcusable gap in our understanding of racial and ethnic dynamics. . . . Is <em>Mixed Blessing</em> an easy read? Certainly not. But it is an essential one."</p><p>From the foreword by Jemar Tisby, president of The Witness</p><p><br></p><p>"There is such a huge need for this book! I have often wondered who in the next generation would write about the mixed-race experience from a Christian perspective, and I am so glad it is Chandra Crane. At once reassuring and challenging, Chandra invites multiethnic people both to rest in the knowledge of being 'loved and lovely, ' and to rise up and take our rightful place in the Beloved Community, using our pain and privilege to do the work of creating welcoming spaces for all. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to help heal our multiethnic selves and world."</p><p>Sundee T. Frazier, author of Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person and several novels for young people featuring interracial families and mixed-race people</p><p><br></p><p>"Integrating biblical narratives, personal story, and a variety of individuals' experiences, Chandra address the complexity of multiracial identity with nuance and insight. This book is everything I needed for the 'mixed' students, neighbors, and family members in my life. Most importantly I found a framework I need to parent my own biracial sons."</p><p>Sandra Maria Van Opstal, executive director of Chasing Justice and author of The Next Worship</p><p><br></p><p>"Those of us who are of mixed ethnicity defy categories, stump those trying to pin us down, and can even stump ourselves while trying to figure out our own identities. Where do we belong? Where do we fit in? Will we ever feel at home? It is clear that in <em>Mixed Blessing</em> Chandra Crane has done her homework and has done the interior work to detail for the rest of us the complexity, beauty, and gift of being a multiethnic person. She also shares some real but hard truths about how we are 'othered' by others. In reading <em>Mixed Blessing</em>, I felt seen and understood. This a welcomed and needed resource!"</p><p>Marlena Graves, author of The Way Up Is Down: Becoming Yourself by Forgetting Yourself</p><p><br></p><p>"As Chandra Crane says, 'Don't be colorblind. Be color brave.' I agree!"</p><p>Doug Schaupp, national director of evangelism for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA and coauthor of Breaking the Huddle</p><p><br></p><p>"I have told so many different people that this book is coming, and I'm so glad it's here. In an increasingly multiethnic, multiracial, and multicultural world, we need spiritual guides to help us navigate that growing complexity and diversity. This book serves as a helpful roadmap for all who don't fall neatly along preconceived ethnic, cultural, and racial lines-and who want to live as kingdom witnesses in the beauty of their complexity and heritage."</p><p>Sarah Shin, speaker and author of Beyond Colorblind</p><p><br></p><p>"The United States is in the early stages of a profound racial and ethnic 'mestizaje, ' in which cultural groups from every continent on the globe are freely mixing in a historically unprecedented way. Chandra Crane shows us that this is by God's design and offers an honest and hopeful roadmap for navigating these new cultural realities."</p><p>Robert Chao Romero, author of Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity</p><br>
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