The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

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In other work, Guy ( 2018), using a sample of 6, argues those of mixed race experience invalidation of self-chosen identity, through the imposition of honorary whiteness, rooted in Australia’s history of conditional acceptance of otherness. The result is simplification of racial complexity by denying otherness. Official terminology reinforces the invisibility of race, she argues, and national identity norms limit the recognition of diversity beyond banal, mundane, non-threatening elements of cultural difference such as food, clothing and music. Guy reports her participants did not feel accepted as ‘Australian’, not quite fitting in in the way they desired. One of Ryan’s greatest frustrations is that his identity so often depends on how other people choose to label him. He wants people to be more sensitive when it comes to making snap judgements and sweeping assertions.

The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations

Tilbury, F. (2007). Hyphenated realities: Growing up an Indian-American-Bruneian Baha’i in ‘multicultural’ Australia. In M. Perkins (Ed.), Visibly different: Face, place and race in Australia (pp. 145–162). Peter Lang. How I identify, and being non-binary, it’s something I’m grappling with constantly. This isn’t to say that my experience is harder than other people’s. But there is that constant vigilance to not, you know, slip into comfortable. As a masculine, white-passing person, life would probably go by fine for me. It’s having that self-awareness and continuously working on the awareness to keep pushing against white supremacy and patriarchy wherever it shows up. She is working to influence change in education to ensure the curriculum is not just taught through a white lens.I’m here to tell you, after 25 years of writing and interrogating my own roots and identity, that it doesn’t have to be this way. But where do we begin, especially if we barely know any other mixed-race people? I’ve been called ethnically ambiguous by more than one person. It makes me feel like a blank slate sometimes. But in some ways, it is kind of cool because I feel like if someone’s trying to identify with you or call you one of them, that creates openness to actually connect with people. How much blood does one need to be able to claim an identity? One half, one quarter, one eighth, one sixteenth, one drop?

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I sort of remember realizing my race when I was late elementary school age and I had gotten in trouble at my grandmother’s house. And I remember putting, like, baby powder on my skin and like trying to convince myself for whatever reason that I would not be as in trouble if I looked more like my mom.The making of this documentary took 3 years of research, interviews and filming. It was completed in April 2013. [6] The documentary is in Japanese with English subtitles and English with Japanese subtitles. Some protagonists talk in English.