{"id":60753,"date":"2021-04-19T17:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60753"},"modified":"2021-04-19T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T17:36:56","slug":"natalie-morris-ideas-of-mixedness-are-binary-and-centred-around-whiteness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=60753","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Morris: \u201cIdeas of mixedness are binary and centred around whiteness\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedmessages.substack.com\/p\/natalie-morris-ideas-of-mixedness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Natalie Morris: \u201cIdeas of mixedness are binary and centred around whiteness\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedmessages.substack.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Substack<\/a><br \/>\n2021-04-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/izzymks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Isabella Silvers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mixedmessages.substack.com\/p\/natalie-morris-ideas-of-mixedness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba880004-e0b5-4b45-b962-5ed67653d4b1_3873x3098.jpeg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hi, welcome back to <em>Mixed Messages!<\/em> This week I\u2019m speaking to journalist and author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nmozz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Natalie Morris<\/a>, who is of Jamaican and white British heritage. I first came across Natalie with <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/mixed-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mixed Up<\/em><\/a>, a series on Metro exploring the nuances of mixed identity. Continuing this vital conversation, Natalie has just released her first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Mixed\/Other: Explorations of Multiraciality in Modern Britain<\/em><\/a>. Read on to hear Natalie share her own experiences, plus what she hopes everyone can take from her important work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The author of <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=60683\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mixed\/Other<\/a><em> on the duality of holding two truths simultaneously and the isolation of being mixed<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you define your ethnicity?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My dad\u2019s family is Jamaican and my mum is white British, so I say I say mixed or mixed and Black. I\u2019m trying to move away from \u2018mixed-race\u2019 as it implies a kind of essentialism.<\/p>\n<p>The terminology changes and develops, which is good, but it can be tricky to keep up with that. There\u2019s no wrong or right way to describe yourself, but it\u2019s important to be open to those changes. It\u2019s important that people also listen to what mixed people want \u2013 so many things are forced on you when you\u2019re mixed, and it can be hard to push back against that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire interview <a href=\"https:\/\/mixedmessages.substack.com\/p\/natalie-morris-ideas-of-mixedness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;Mixed\/Other&#8221; on the duality of holding two truths simultaneously and the isolation of being mixed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,13743,8,10],"tags":[31399,27733,31398],"class_list":["post-60753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-isabella-silvers","tag-natalie-morris","tag-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60753","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=60753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60755,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60753\/revisions\/60755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}