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"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 ofidentity 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.



Jemar Tisby is the author of the New York Times bestselling book The Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church's Complicity in Racism. His writing has been featured on CNN, and in the Washington Post, theAtlantic, and the New York Times. He is the founder and president of The Witness Black Christian Collective and the cohost of the Pass the Mic podcast.



Chandra Crane (MA, Reformed Theological Seminary) is the mixed ministry coordinator for the multiethnic initiatives department of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and has written for In All Things, The Well, and The Witness: A Black Christian Collective. Growing up in a multiethnic/multicultural family in the Southwest and now happily transplanted to the Deep South, Chandra is passionate about diversity and family and is a member of the multiethnic Redeemer Church in Jackson, Mississippi.



Foreword by Jemar Tisby



Introduction: What Are You?



1. Multiethnicity 101: The Foundation of Being Mixed



2. Multiethnicity 102: The Story of Being Mixed



3. Rejecting Stereotypes, Understanding Prototypes, Embracing Stories



4. Mixed Folks: Minorities of Minorities



5. Mixed Identity in the Multiethnic Christ



6. Exploring and Nurturing Mixed Identity



7. Mixed Identity in Our Families and Communities



8. Mixed Identity in the Church and Society



Epilogue: Our Story



Acknowledgments



Appendix A



Appendix B



Study Guide



Notes



Name Index



Subject Index