“It's a quietly astonishing memoir of a multi-racial American woman. It shows, even for someone who doesn't see herself as multi-racial, what it's like, why it's important and deserves to be explored in depth.”
–Jan Visick, Ashoka

Multitudes: Moving from Fragmentation to Integration for Multiracial Identity and Belonging

From renowned public health expert Dr. Karabi Acharya comes a profound, beautifully written exploration of what it means to be Multiracial today—and a transformative call to build a culture of absolute belonging.

Multiracial people are the fastest-growing population in the United States, yet they remain almost invisible in our institutions, narratives, and data. Until recently, Americans were categorized as Black or White, sometimes Asian or Hispanic, without other options or the choice to identify as more than one. Even while long-overdue conversations about race have deepened, the thirty-four million Americans who identify as Multiracial have been left on the sidelines: unseen, underrepresented, and facing an epidemic of isolation as a result.

In Multitudes, Dr. Acharya—a Multiracial academic, public health leader, and lifelong activist for inclusion—blends groundbreaking research with personal stories, interviews, and vivid real-world examples to illuminate the Multiracial experience. The result is both mirror and manifesto: a stereotype-shattering, deeply human portrait of identity, resilience, and connection that argues that embracing our complexity—our multitudes—is not a barrier to wholeness but the path to it.

Urgent, inspiring, and essential, Multitudes is a guide for anyone who identifies as Multiracial or antiracist—and for everyone seeking the confidence and community needed to build a healthier, more inclusive society.

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  • "This is a book about being Multiracial - unmasking a chronically overlooked experience in the U.S. It challenges how we think about categories of people, and even the very act of categorizing them. Appropriately, the book itself defies categorization, spanning memoir, oral history, self-help, sociology, and anti-racist education. It helps me understand the Multiracial people in my life better, and equips me to be more sensitive to their experience."

    –Ann E. Jerome, Director, Similia Press

  • "It's a quietly astonishing memoir of a multi-racial American woman. It shows, even for someone who doesn't see herself as multi-racial, what it's like, why it's important and deserves to be explored in depth. Fascinating, moving, and funny. It feels a lot like sitting across a table with cappuccinos in a coffee shop, talking the whole way through the book. You explain every concept so that it doesn't feel like explaining, it feels like a conversation that picks up its threads and ties them together interestingly, never hurriedly, as you go along."

    –Jan Visick, Ashoka

  • "This book reveals how difficult it can be for multiracial people to feel they truly belong anywhere, because no one is quite like them and there's often no place where they can express their full selves. That really stuck with me. I also love the voice - it's so comfortable and conversational, like a friend is talking to you."

    —Martha Coven, former Obama White House staffer and author of Writing on the Job: Best Practices for Communicating in the Digital Age

  • "This book is a beautiful story of grappling with the complexity of a multi-racial identity in a world that likes to put us in monocultural boxes. It is about the process of questioning and ultimately claiming a Multiracial identity, through the voices of 30 interviewees and the author. Anyone who is multi-cultural or multiracial will be able to see themselves in the voices of the featured multiracial interviewees or through Karabi's personal story. I loved it. It reinforced my love of the personal story/life narrative as a way to connect deeply with someone, while also learning a lot through the story. I think it is a powerful communication medium. That was a strong backbone for the more conceptual, philosophical, and historical elements of the book, which rounded it out to feel very substantive."

    –Marina Kim