{"id":51064,"date":"2017-01-08T00:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-08T00:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51064"},"modified":"2017-01-08T02:02:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-08T02:02:26","slug":"mixed-in-the-six-pop-up-events-created-to-support-multiracial-torontonians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51064","title":{"rendered":"Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Toronto Star<\/a>
\n2017-01-03<\/p>\n

Erin Kobayashi<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nMixed in the Six<\/a>, is a pop-up event aimed at building a community for multi-racial Torontonians. (Cole Burtan\/Toronto Star<\/em>)<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

An event for the off-spring of mixed-race families hits a chord as the difficult to \u2018identify\u2019 find their people.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am eating a Singaporean and Peranakan-inspired dinner with people who look like my family more than my actual family.<\/p>\n

The night before, I sat down to a proper English roast with my mother\u2019s family that is dominated by blue eyes, blond hair and pale skin, a striking contrast to my Japanese-Canadian father\u2019s side of the family.<\/p>\n

But here at Mixed in the Six<\/a>, a Toronto<\/a> pop-up dining and social event held at Peter Pan Bistro<\/a>, the more than 40 attendees look like variations of me: Strong, dark hair. Skin that doesn\u2019t burn in the sun. And despite vastly different backgrounds spanning from Jamaica<\/a> and Norway<\/a> to Finland<\/a> and Singapore<\/a>, every guest is well-versed in the Toronto mixed-race experience. We\u2019ve all felt the invasive gazes and heard tired, othering questions like, \u201cWhere are you from?\u201d…<\/p>\n

…\u201cPeople have shared with us that they feel a sense of belonging and acceptance at MIT6,\u201d says Oades. \u201cThat feeling of not being, for example, \u2018black enough or white enough\u2019 seems to dissolve when you get to connect with other people who have had similar experiences as you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor G. Reginald Daniel<\/a>, who edits the Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies<\/em>, both based out of the University of California, Santa Barbara<\/a>, understands mixed-race events are naturally fun and exciting but he hopes young attendees recognize the legal, physical and psychological struggles and trauma older multiracial generations have gone through. For example, the U.S. law against interracial marriage was only outlawed in 1967.<\/p>\n

And while MIT6 guests often cheekily gush over one another\u2019s attractiveness (many attendees happen to work as models, actors and performers), Daniel hopes mixed-race millennials don\u2019t get caught up in a strictly superficial multiracial discourse.<\/p>\n

He notes how the mainstream media has latched onto the \u201chappy hapa<\/a>,\u201d \u201cmagical mixie,\u201d \u201chappy hybrid,\u201d \u201cracial ambassador,\u201d and \u201cpost-racial messiah\u201d stereotypes of multiracial individuals that are dangerous because they portray \u201coverenthusiastic images, including notions that multiracial individuals in the post-Civil rights era<\/a> no longer experience any racial trauma and conflict about their identity.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mixed in the Six pop-up events created to support multiracial Torontonians The Toronto Star 2017-01-03 Erin Kobayashi Mixed in the Six, is a pop-up event aimed at building a community for multi-racial Torontonians. (Cole Burtan\/Toronto Star) An event for the off-spring of mixed-race families hits a chord as the difficult to \u2018identify\u2019 find their people. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,19,125,8,394],"tags":[3765,25925,142,25923,25924,25926,25921,25922,14456,4798,2372,2117],"class_list":["post-51064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-chandra-waring","tag-charlene-dorland","tag-g-reginald-daniel","tag-gina-oades","tag-haan-palcu-chang","tag-michael-bray","tag-mit6","tag-mixed-in-the-six","tag-ontario","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51076,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51064\/revisions\/51076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}