The Aftermath of ”You’re Only Half”: Multiracial Identities in the Literacy Classroom

This article discusses children’s experiences with a literacy project intended to celebrate the cultures represented in a highly diverse fourth/fifth grade urban elementary classroom. However, when other children questioned the claimed identities of three biracial children, the project was transformed from a rather straightforward attempt to acknowledge and honor diversity into a critical literacy project in which children grappled with the complexities of race and what it means to claim membership in racial categories.