Being a writer was a counter-force to people saying I was a half-caste, a Paki, a mongrel.

Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.

[Rebecca] Hall’s film [Passing] has cracked open a public conversation about colorism, privilege and secrets. On Twitter, people are sharing stories and black-and-white photographs of a grandmother’s cousins who moved out of state, great-aunts who sneaked back to see their family in secret, relatives who lost their jobs when co-workers informed management about their identities: a public airing of what in Hall’s family was once closely held. Recently one of her mother’s sisters reached out: She said that they never really had language to understand the hidden context that shaped their family, and she thanked her for giving it to them.

Alexandra Kleeman, “The Secret Toll of Racial Ambiguity,” The New York Times Magazine. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/magazine/rebecca-hall-passing.html.

Being a writer was a counter-force to people saying I was a half-caste, a Paki, a mongrel.

“Being a writer was a counter-force to people saying I was a half-caste, a Paki, a mongrel. It was a real thing in the world, an identity. I needed to call myself a writer back then because they were calling me a fucking Paki… We are all mixed-race now – me, Obama, Tiger Woods, Lewis Hamilton.” —Hanif Kureishi

James Kidd, “Hanif Kureishi: ‘We’re all mixed-race now,” The Independent, October 23, 2011. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/hanif-kureishi-were-all-mixed-race-now-1909507.html.

Tags: Hanif Kureishi, James Kidd, The Independent

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