ABSTRACT
This chapter provides the backdrop for historical fiction that includes multiracial characters whose life experiences would necessarily have been shaped by legal and social perspectives about racial mixing. Given the prevalence of hostility towards interracial unions and multiracial offspring, it is contextually accurate for historical fiction to include stories of rejection and isolation. The authors of Take Me With You and All the Broken Pieces invite readers to consider the experiences of children who live at the intersection of war and race in fairly credible ways. Many of the most prominent voices of multicultural education urge educators to examine the ways power operates in society, school, curricula, classroom environments. Those that celebrate diversity and a common humanity fall into the realm of cultural pluralism, and those that affirm racial and cultural difference with a recognition of power in terms of equity and inequity embody "pluralism that manifests power".
