#multiracial identity

[mixedmestizame-blog]

Report on Loving Case 1967

[uwemzy]

36 Mixed-Race Celebrities Who Have Actually Talked About Their Multiracial Identity

36 Mixed-Race Celebrities Who Have Actually Talked About Their Multiracial Identity

The article captures some mixed-race celebrities who have actually talked about their multiracial identity. There are some of your favorite celebrities that you may not have taken time to study to know their true identity. These people are the famous star that is so busy with their profession and other important life activities. Most of them do not really have time to sit down to be interviewed…

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[mixedmestizame-blog]

7 Ridiculous Things Not to Say to Mixed Race People

Our identities are not curiosities, small talk, talking points, or tokens. You don't know what our backgrounds mean to us.

[minoritiesinpublishing]

“That is so complex and interesting to me. It's one way to straddle a line is to be Mexican in your home, an American or White out of your home. Or to feel ties to Mexico and to feel ties to Dallas, Texas. But there are so many other ways to identify in the Latino, Latina, Latinx spectrum. My mother is Mexican-American. She was born in a border town in Texas, South Texas. And her family had been there for generations before they moved up to Dallas. My dad is half Puerto Rican. His mother was born and raised in the southern edge of the island. His dad is White. He met my grandmother when he was stationed in Puerto Rico in the Army.” --Samantha Mabry

In the current episode, Samantha Mabry spoke about, and writes about, biracial identity and how she’s engaged with her students on it. 

[bthesisideas]

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[angeliicaaschuyler-blog1]

If I had a dollar for every time someone has asked me “What are you?” I could have put myself through college. 

19 Things Multiracial Women Want You To Know

My cousin’s “She not black, like you...” comment (about me) to my dad comes to mind too. 

[elohor]

On Being a White Oyibo

Newest post on my blog: a reflection on race and identity in Nigeria...and how radically different a single person can be viewed across space, and over time. On Being a White Oyibo

21 December 2006 (late night, my flat in Ugbowo)

More than once in the past few weeks, people have referred to me as “white”…unequivocally, categorically “white.” Now, I’m used to being hyper-visible when I’m here, and I grew up being called Oyibo whenever we were out in public as a child here. The term Oyibo carries sufficient ambiguity, because the term is applied to a whole range of folk.…

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[profeminist]

Gorgeous Black-And-White Portraits Explore The Meaning Of Multiracial Identities 

"I began this project because I recognized that I was part of a underrepresented group of people," artist Samantha Wall explained in an email to HuffPost. "It’s difficult to talk about multiraciality with individuals who can’t understand our perspective. It’s not as simple as being part this and part that, our identities can’t be so easily divided. But art is a language that lends itself to communicating experiences too difficult to comprehend through words alone.

For her project "Indivisible," Wall explores the meaning of multiracial identities in Korea and the United States through a series of black-and-white portraits. The images show models staring fearlessly at the viewer, flashing a smile, a laugh and sometimes even a grimace. Wall's charcoal and ink illustrations attempt to convey, as she notes, a feeling that words cannot. "Through this work I am exposing the plurality of emotions that sculpt human subjectivity," she writes on her website. "The drawings of these women are portals into the human psyche, a place where emotions call out and perceived racial boundaries dissolve."

To create her works, Wall stages photography sessions, engaging each individual model in conversations that vary from person to person while she snaps their portraits. Some conversations are more broad and political, others are intimate and personal, but all are meant to reveal the shared experience of being a multiracial woman. Instead of drawing her subjects live, she utilizes photography as a means of recording the myriad expressions produced during a one or two hour conversation. She then combs through hundreds of digital photos, looking for one that best captures an exchange.”

Read the full piece and see more of Wall’s illustrations here