The Mixed-Race Experience: Reflections and Revelations on Multicultural Identity

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In the above we see limitations on inclusion of racial others, with the majority White population dictating the terms.

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Howard’s preference was for a nation made up of people of different colours sharing a single culture, with national identity primary. Elsewhere I have written about my own experience as quite a white-looking mixed person with a strong identity as mixed (Tilbury, 2007), so will not repeat these reflections here, but instead use an example of how others in Australia engage with the question of counting mixedness.I don’t really know how to account for my mother’s background, which at best could be described as mestizo Colombian.

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We share our experiences of growing up mixed race in Britain, how wecontinue to process, understand and learn about their identity and use ourprivilege to advocate for change, as well as addressing the complexities of being mixed racetoday.

A number of theses have made similar arguments in terms of representations of mixedness in Australian novels (Dickens, 2014) or art (Bolatagici, 2004). The term ‘mixed-race’ itself is, in a sense, an impractical one, referring to anyone who is half Filipina half white, like myself, to someone of Chinese-Brazilian descent. It is an intimate and uplifting short that captures the shared challenges, emotions and histories of mixed-race people from the UK, Denmark, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Germany and Japan. It’s kind of one of my regrets, to be honest, and I’ve made an effort as I’ve gotten older to embrace that again.

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He refuses to privilege one aspect of his own identity over others, despite an imperative “that anomalous individuals choose to be either exclusively Indigenous or exclusively non-Indigenous” (Paradies, 2006: 357). I like breaking it down a little — my family is white, and then on my dad’s side, I have family in Japan.I really experienced it from both sides — I’ve experienced colorism, I’ve experienced people saying, “Well, you’re not Black and you’re not Mexican enough. It wasn’t until the three of us came together and started talking that it became clear that this feeling was mutual. Using my experience of being challenged for speaking too positively about the experience of being mixed in Australia, and a Facebook discussion about Census categories, this paper explores the ways in which mixed race is talked about (and not talked about) in Australia. I think I kind of really grew up as a chameleon and I learned how to code switch and communicate with a lot of different people when I was really young. In other work, Guy ( 2018), using a sample of 6, argues those of mixed race experience invalidation of self-chosen identity, through the imposition of honorary whiteness, rooted in Australia’s history of conditional acceptance of otherness.