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

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The expectation of getting “the best of both worlds” is a myth – instead you’re stateless, with an identity always up for debate. He wants to shout about the mixed-race experience until it starts sinking in as part of mainstream consciousness.

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Howard’s preference was for a nation made up of people of different colours sharing a single culture, with national identity primary. This presumption of whiteness perpetuates the ‘breeding out’ logic of Australia’s history—it ‘de-racializes’ those of mixed backgrounds.

The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. Ifekwunigwe ( 2004) identified three stages through which theorising mixed-race has occurred—the age of pathology, the age of celebration and the age of critique. In a Facebook discussion recently, on the eve of the 2021 Australian Census, friends criticised the ethnic identification options available. These days there are so many more variations of mix, as we see the West African, Middle Eastern Chinese and Indian communities grow in the UK’ says Ryan.

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But when it comes to what we’re trying to do at Vox, there are a couple reasons that we can't rely only on ads and subscriptions to keep the lights on.We are complicated and smart and able to navigate multiple cultures, we are an asset, we are here to stay, and we have a voice. One half is weighted with centuries of painful history, deeply negative stereotypes and systems of oppression stacked against it.

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Almost 30 years later, the United States is getting ready to inaugurate its first female vice president, who is of Black and South Asian descent; the nation has already sworn in its first multiracial and Black president, Barack Obama. A number of theses have made similar arguments in terms of representations of mixedness in Australian novels (Dickens, 2014) or art (Bolatagici, 2004).I ended up walking out of my own session at the inaugural Journal of Intercultural Studies conference at City University of New York. She is still really connected to her Black roots, and we have a big Black family that we’re so very connected to.

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We had a Latinx affinity group on campus and I think at times it was a little bit difficult for me to relate to others in the group. However, emerging as a reactionary term to the offensive ‘half-caste’ slur, ‘mixed-race’ was, for many, a sign of progress. Vox's journalism is free, because we believe that everyone deserves to understand the world they live in. When it comes to relationships, it seems like the general attitude is that being with someone who is Black or having mixed race children makes you by default an effective ally, or somehow exempt from racism.If race is a story about power that is written on the body (Spickard, 2015), these stories from elsewhere, with different power relations, historical and political trajectories, and types of bodies, are important.