{"id":56823,"date":"2018-08-24T21:14:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T21:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=56823"},"modified":"2018-08-25T02:33:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-25T02:33:24","slug":"a-part-and-apart-passing-and-belonging-as-a-multiracial-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=56823","title":{"rendered":"\u201cA Part, and Apart\u201d: Passing and Belonging as a Multiracial Person"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cA Part, and Apart\u201d: Passing and Belonging as a Multiracial Person<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Psychology Today<\/a>
\n2018-08-21<\/p>\n

Tiffany McLain<\/strong><\/a>, LMFT
\nSan Francisco, California<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s how to navigate passing<\/a> and belonging as a multiracial person.<\/em><\/p>\n

Tiffany note: For the past few months, I have been writing about the experience of white mothers of biracial children. For the next set of articles in this series, I will be sharing the stories of white fathers of biracial children. The following article is a brief interlude that invites us to consider the experience of the biracial person who has been raised by a white mother, despite being multiethnic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The following article is written by Bay Area<\/a> psychotherapist, Deva Segal<\/a>, MFT. In it, she describes the experience of being a light-skinned biracial person in a society that desires a clear binary when it comes to racial identifications…<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

…Over the course of my life, I have identified myself in many ways: half Indian-half White; just White; Other; South Asian; Desi; multiethnic; biracial; multiracial; light-skinned Indian; light-brown-but-probably-needs-to-go-back-in-the-toaster-a-little-bit-longer. In recent years, I have identified a \u201cpublicly white person and privately a person of color\u201d in efforts to acknowledge my privilege. Still, that doesn\u2019t always fit. Half my story is gone. Owning my own experience as a woman of color without apology while still kinda passing for white<\/a> is a delightful grab bag of identity crises…<\/p>\n

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

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