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

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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? Luke, C., & Luke, A. (1998). Interracial families: difference within difference. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 21(4), 728–754. Brett, J., & Moran, A. (2011). Cosmopolitan nationalism: Ordinary people making sense of diversity. Nations and Nationalism, 17(1), 188–206.

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a b "Hafu". Netflix Media Center. Archived from the original on 2017-06-02 . Retrieved December 25, 2017. Busbridge, R. (2020). A multicultural success story? Australian integration in comparative focus. Journal of Sociology, 56(2), 263–270. NATALIE EVANS (pronouns: she/her) is a 31-year-old Events Manager, an anti-racist educator, speaker and writer from Kent. She has managed various festivals and is currently the Events Manager for a new youth festival, which will launch in 2021. Katz, I. (2012). Mixed race across time and place: Contrasting Australia with the UK. In R. Edwards, M. Song, C. Caballero, & S. Ali (Eds.), International perspectives on racial and ethnic mixedness and mixing (pp. 23–35). Routledge. When thinking about the ‘we’ who is able to speak, considering who ‘counts’ as mixed is also important. Elsewhere I have written about my own experience as quite a white-looking mixed person with a strong identity as mixed (Tilbury, 2007), so will not repeat these reflections here, but instead use an example of how others in Australia engage with the question of counting mixedness.The UK’s fastest-growing ethnic group is comprised of anyone with parents who have two of more different ethnicities – and the varieties within that group are almost endless.

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Non-fiction is not my bag at all but this reads so easily. It felt like listening to a podcast. Definitely a good book for readers who don’t regularly read non-fiction, very easy to digest. Luke, C., & Luke, A. (1999). Theorizing interracial families and hybrid identity: An Australian perspective. Educational Theory, 49(2), 223–249.A very interesting and thought provoking book, the first I've ever read that talk about whan being mixed race means. At the same time, I didn’t want to feel like that was denying my mom. Even though I don’t identify as a white person, I was raised by a white mom who has a beautiful history and life too. So I don’t like to discount that. Hafu' ". The Japan Times. 3 October 2013. Archived from the original on 2016-09-24 . Retrieved August 25, 2019. 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.

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There are unique lived experiences based on location and reading this made me think about my white privilege in a majority Japanese environment and how that might shape my kids experience. I only recently became confident that I could just, in some circumstances, say “I’m Filipino.” I don’t always have to qualify the basis of my identity to everybody. That is very new for me because people always felt the need to say, “You’re only half,” or remind me that I’m also white . But as I’ve gotten older, and just with more recent conversations about race, I’ve come to realize that I don’t care anymore. I am Filipino, I am white. I don’t always have to say all of my mixed percentages to everybody. I am a mix of Brazilian and Lebanese descent. I think my identity is very much like a Venn diagram, where I keep moving around those various circles and the overlap keeps changing all the time. The one thing I have kept constant is some sense of mixedness. If I have to put myself in a commonly recognized box, it would be Latino. THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Bernardine Evaristo | 'IMPORTANT' Melissa Hemsley | 'RAZOR-SHARP' Nels Abbey | 'ESSENTIAL' Jaspreet Kaur | ' INSPIRATIONAL' Sophie Williams | 'REVEALING' Tineka Smith | 'NECESSARY' Natalie Alexis Lee Second, we’re not in the subscriptions business. Vox is here to help everyone understand the complex issues shaping the world — not just the people who can afford to pay for a subscription. We believe that’s an important part of building a more equal society. We can’t do that if we have a paywall.In terms of policy and practice, multiculturalism was a way of invisibilising race. There remain limits to Australian multiculturalism, as Ghassan Hage ( 1998) noted in White Nation, with the power to ‘tolerate’ difference and govern inclusion into the national community still resting in the hands of the (unnamed) White majority. Rhetorically, though, Australia as ‘the most successful multicultural country’ is a strong theme in representations of the nation (Busbridge, 2020), and, I have argued, frames how mixedness is seen. While Hage’s critique is valid, there are very high levels of support for multiculturalism in Australia (consistently at about 84% according to the Scanlon surveys overseen by Andrew Markus, see Scanlon Institute, 2020). Australians like to see themselves as multicultural and perceive that this is what is distinctive about them as Australians, as opposed to those from other countries (Brett & Moran, 2011). This fourth legacy creates a particular social and political environment that allows pride to be taken in mixedness, at least of a certain type. Kowal, E. (2016). Descent, classification and indigeneity in Australia. In Mixed race identities in Australia, New Zealand and the pacific islands (pp. 31–47). Routledge. Newman, A. M. (2021). Revisiting the marginal man: Bridging immigration scholarship and Mixed-Race studies. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 7(1), 26–40.