Mixed Blessing
"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.
"Mixed Blessing 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 Mixed Blessing an easy read? Certainly not. But it is an essential one."
"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 Mixed Blessing 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 Mixed Blessing, I felt seen and understood. This a welcomed and needed resource!"
"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."
"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."