Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Dean Van Nguyen
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‘Yes, I’m Irish’ is a video series focusing on the experiences of mixed-race Irish people. They told us how the Ireland of today compares with the one they grew up in.
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“My mother said, ‘By identifying yourself as black, you’re cutting out the whole other side of your heritage. You’re not acknowledging the fact that half of you is white, that half of your background is white.’ That I wasn’t acknowledging that she existed.” “I’m starting to see myself as mixed. If I’m asked my identity,…
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Having your core ‘Irishness’ questioned raises issues when attempting to get to grips with your own sense of self. As a teenager, I referred to myself as white, perhaps in an attempt to fit in with my peers. Today I define myself as half-white, half-Asian, but no less Irish. Dean Van Nguyen, “Half-white, half-Asian, but…
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Half white, half Asian Dubliner Dean Van Nguyen speaks to other mixed-race Irish people in their twenties and thirties about growing up in a primarily white culture, being subjected to racist taunts, and coming to terms with their own sense of self.