Issues in Education: “What are You?” Biracial Children in the Classroom

School racial‐ethnic socialization of multiracial K12 students: A systematic review of the literature using MultiCrit

“…As one student in Williams' (2013) study said bluntly: “it's just not on their [teacher's] radar” (p. 190). It's unsurprising, then, that Multiracial students receive little to no information at school about multiracial people or what it means to be a member of a “multiracial” group (Baxley, 2008; Wardle, 2000; Winn Tutwiler, 2016). Scholars across the literature pointed to the invisibility of mixedness and multiracial persons in the curriculum (Baxley, 2008; Campbell, 2020; Joseph & Briscoe‐Smith, 2021; Wardle, 2000; Williams, 2013; Winn Tutwiler, 2016).…”

“…It's unsurprising, then, that Multiracial students receive little to no information at school about multiracial people or what it means to be a member of a “multiracial” group (Baxley, 2008; Wardle, 2000; Winn Tutwiler, 2016). Scholars across the literature pointed to the invisibility of mixedness and multiracial persons in the curriculum (Baxley, 2008; Campbell, 2020; Joseph & Briscoe‐Smith, 2021; Wardle, 2000; Williams, 2013; Winn Tutwiler, 2016). Williams (2013) found that the lack of multiracial persons in the curriculum led mixed‐race students to assume multiracial persons had made insignificant societal contributions and to question whether they were worthy of study.…”