Episode 4: Cultural Identity and Embracing Our Roots

How do we construct our cultural identity? What does it mean to celebrate it? How does having a mixed ethnic identity contribute to our understanding of being Asian American? Ray and Michelle chat with Chandra Crane, author of Mixed Blessing, about cultural inheritance, multiethnicity, and reclaiming an Asian identity.

Chandra Crane (B.S. Education, M.A. Ministry) is the Multiethnic Initiatives Mixed Ministry Coordinator with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship and a member of the multiethnic Redeemer Church in Jackson, Mississippi. 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. She is a Regular Contributor for Dordt University’s In All Things and has written for The Witness: A Black Christian Collective and InterVarsity’s The Well. Chandra is the author of Mixed Blessing: Embracing the Fullness of Your Multiethnic Identity from InterVarsity Press (2020).

Learn more about Chandra Crane:

https://chandracrane.com

Get your copy of Mixed Blessing and listen to Chandra on IVP’s Every Voice Now:

https://www.ivpress.com/mixed-blessing

https://www.ivpress.com/every-voice-now/podcast/season-1/episode-2

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Credits

Hosts: Raymond Chang, Michelle Reyes

Sound engineers: Iris Kim, Sean Kim

Coordinator Grace Liu