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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‘In reality, being mixed has historically been incredibly difficult and isolating, and although I don’t feel that is the case as much now, I do think society has to be careful not to reduce or fetishise us.
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The realities of being mixed-race are unique and often overlooked in mainstream narratives, but documentary maker Ryan Cooper-Brown wants to change that. His new short documentary film “Being Both” tackles issues that directly relate to the mixed-race experience, from displacement and family conflict to racism and fetishisation.
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For so many mixed-race people, where you fit in the world depends on how other people perceive you. For Siobhan, her lighter skin places her closer to whiteness, but there are complications alongside the privilege.
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‘My mixed-race has informed my identity in being at the core of a long search to have one at all – the struggle to fit in and be part of the many countries and cultures I had to adapt to throughout my childhood.
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She spent her childhood hating and denying her blackness, until a total breakdown in her mid 20s forced her to reassess her identity.
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Despite not believing in the science of race, the daily effects of being perceived as ‘other’ in the UK have been inescapable for Elliott. But he doesn’t view the racist incidences he has experienced as symptomatic of being mixed, he sees them entirely through the prism of blackness.
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Mixed race identity is complicated, to say the least.