Bill Of Rights For People Of Mixed Heritage
In 1993, Critical Race Studies pioneer and researcher Dr. Maria P. P. Root’s drafted the innovative and ground breaking document The Bill of Rights For People of Mixed Heritage. As parents raising Afro-European children, we use this bill of rights to inform our approach in raising empowered multicultural and multi-ethnic children. To download your own copy or for further research please click link . For the Afro Swiss Families version, click link - German version coming soon.
I HAVE THE RIGHT...
Not to justify my existence in this world.
Not to keep the races separate within me.
Not to justify my ethnic legitimacy.
Not to be responsible for people’s discomfort with my physical or ethnic ambiguity.
I HAVE THE RIGHT...
To identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify.
To identify myself differently than how my parents identify me.
To identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters.
To identify myself differently in different situations.
I HAVE THE RIGHT...
To create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial or multi-ethnic.
To change my identity over my lifetime, and more than once.
To have loyalties and identification with more than one group of people.
To freely choose whom I befriend and love.
© Maria P. P. Root, PhD, 1993, 1994
