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It's 3rd grade. I'm late for school, and my mother had to walk me in to class so that my teacher would know the reason for my tardiness. My mom opens the door to my class room, and there is a hush of silence. Everyone's eyes are fixed on my mother and me. She tells the teacher why I was late, gives me a kiss goodbye and leaves for work. As I sit down at my seat, all of my so-called friends start to call me names and tease me. The students tease me not because I was late, but because my mother is white.

Situations like this are hard for a young child to deal with. These type of situations are what bi-racial children deal with every day. The term bi-racial means a child's heritage is made up of two cultures or ethnic groups. In this paper I will compare the advantages and disadvanta

Whether a bi-racial child chooses to relate more toward the black, white or maybe neither side, most often, the child still in most cases has no problems with knowing his self identity. A teenage bi-racial girl that had been brought up by white non-racist people was asked by her black father:

This strategy was not used that often though. One girl who was only eight at the time of her dealing with racism told about her account. She said that she had an argument with one of her friends, and the word got out and the whole school was calling her names such as: pick and mix, mixed blessings, breed and "Your dad comes from the jungle". She said it upset her a lot, but as she thought about she told her self "Well I'm a bit of both, so in a way I'm better than you, I'm black and I'm white, and I can't ever be racist, so I thought of that and I just really took no notice of it." (Tizard and Phoenix 110-111). This way of dealing with racism are usually beyond the intellectual capacity of a small child, but as seen above this eight year old girl was able to accomplish it.

Rowan, Carl T. Breaking Barriers: A Memoir. Little, Brown & Company, 1991

Cashmore, Ellis Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations. Routledge, 1994

"In my childhood, I was forced to deny my white heritage and only claim my Black identity."

1. Miscegenetic- Characteristic of having parents from different races.

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