Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent’s Guide to Raising Multiracial Children by Donna Jackson Nakazawa [in AsianWeek]
01 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Hapa/Mixed-race, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost
Drawing upon the experiences of over 60 multiracial families – including her own, made up of a Japanese American husband and two hapa children – Nakazawa...
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