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Intro Post

Hello! Welcome to this-is-monoracism, a blog dedicated to recording racism specifically affecting biracial and multiracial people.

I’m your mod, @pyxilate - on this blog call me Arcadia, since I only use Pyx on that blog because it’s my username but shortened. I use she/it (I am still experimenting with it/its so do w that what you will), and I’m half black, half white (although I am part Native American too I don’t want to complicate things). I made this blog because of my experiences with monoracism, and wanted an outlet for people to be able to share theirs too and to be made aware of what it is.

You may also send in your experiences with regular racism, or even misogynoir or androracism or anything else, I’m not picky! But… what’s the difference between plain racism against a biracial/multiractial person and monoracism?

Racism: being derogatory towards them for an aspect of their race

Monoracism: being derogatory towards them because they are biracial/multiracial

Some examples:

telling someone (this is a real experience I had), that they’re ’too white’ to be black, or look too much like one race to be the other

telling someone that one aspect of their race doesn’t count because they weren’t raised like that race

treating a biracial/multiracial person like they’re not allowed to be a part of communities for those specific races because they’re also other races (such as telling someone who’s black and Asian they can’t be in a black community because they’re also Asian)

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If you are someone out here who HAS said one of those things before, just know that that’s monoracism, and you should do better.

What this blog is NOT:

•supportive of RCTA/ECTA people

•anti-endo

•radqueer in any way

•antisemetic / islamophobic

•proship

•antiship

•anti-furry/therian

•pro AI

•exclusive of intersex people, nonbinary people, people who use neopronouns, people who use contradicting labels, ect.

•supportive of proud pedophiles, necrophiles, or zoophiles

•supportive of racist people (obviously)

If you ARE any of these things, kindly (or not so in many cases) take a leave and do better :]

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Silly asks are always welcome and will be tagged as such. Enjoy your stay!

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dunno if this applies so feel free to delete but my dad is biracial and my mom is white german and growing up she used to talk all the time about how she "dirtied her perfect aryan blood" by marrying him and that me and my siblings "were forever cursed with dirty blood" and it took until I was in my late 20s to start unpacking how fucked up that kind of thing is to say to anyone let alone the kids you chose to have with someone

This is monoracism and racism.

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I am mixed white and Indigenous and my, very small, friend group get really weird when I talk about it. I am very white passing and wasn't raised with my Indigenous family members in my life and I am very careful to be clear about that although there is some personal stuff around that part of my family and why im not particularly reconnecting as of right now that i dont share.

They kind of act like being white passing and seperated from my Indigenous family makes me immune to experiencing racism? Like i am very aware no one who sees me out and about is going to target me with racism but I literally still hear them be racist about my people and I still get racist comments from the white family members who raised me and I feel like im not allowed to talk about it. None of them is Indigenous to be clear and one of them has outright told me that im "not allowed" to talk about anti Indigenous racism because im "disconnected and basically white" and another said she believes me but "you gotta admit you sound like a pretendian".

I dont know how to feel about it. Like I cant tell of im overreacting and taking up space I shouldnt or if im under reacting

This is monoracism and anti-indigenous racism. You were right to call them out, and additionally, regardless of race they should have listened to you; anyone can call out racism.

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From "race is phenotypical (aka if I can't immediately tell if you're something then you're not it)" anon, I said Ariana because I couldn't remember exactly who the person said. I know it was a celebrity but I'm terrible with names.

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I saw a person say that your race is (purely) phenotypical and that if you had to show them pictures of your family (parents/grandparents) to get them to believe you (because you're too light skin / look "white") then you're not that race.

Also said Ariana Grande was light skin now but she "could've been brown skin but she ain't anymore"

My brain says she was talking purely skin tone but like??

I am very confused by this person

I am… also confused by that person, because according to her I wouldn’t be black and white because so many people have mistaken me for Hispanic…. (I don’t know how that happens either, but, well, nothing can I do about it 😭)

Also, that is monoracism and racism.

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Is it racism that Disney changed the character Dorinda in The Cheetah Girls from half Japanese, half Black in the books to a white-passing, blonde, never-stated-to-be-mixed Latina in the movies? Because ngl I'm Vietnamese and Black and always hated Disney for that. I would have loved seeing someone like me in a Disney movie as a kid and it sucks that I'll never get that because Disney just decided to randomly change the character's race.

This is monoracism and racism.

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Had a fellow half white/asian person tell me I HAD to learn how to read Japanese because they personally feel like they have to know absolutely everything about their own Japanese roots in order to “earn” the right to identify as Japanese. Honestly, I did feel a little bad for them because it seems like they’re dealing with their own mess of internalized nonsense. But dude don’t go around projecting that shit onto other people randomly 🫩 I am Japanese. That’s not anything I have to “earn.” I just am.

This is monoracism.

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once when i was a little kid my mom called me a mutt and it was only like a decade later that i went “hold on a minute 🤨 mutt???”

This is monoracism.

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Hello, this is more of a question of what constitutes "being white" and what heritage can affect that.

I'm born and raised American, and am white-presenting at the least. I have the following heritage (in order from most prevalent to least):

English, German, French, Italian, Irish, Scottish

Could I potentially be seen as partially non-white? This is just asked out of genuine curiosity and as a way to understand other people better.

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No, you’re white. While I’m not going to lie and say that I’m an expert on all things about what qualifies the difference, all of those heritages constitute what would in general, be considered white, as far as I’m aware.

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people calling me white AFTER i explain to them that i am half white, half jewish. i understand that i look white but if you’re still saying this after i’ve already explained it you’re being ignorant

This is monoracism. It may also be antisemitism.

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Seeing many black people talk about how "the one drop rule" had the black community in a clutch hold and how if you don't have a black dad and two black paternal grandparents then ur mixed, yeah, but you can't participate in black culture because you're not "black enough" and feeling insecure because my mother is white and my father is also a white passing mixed person and everyone in my immediately family on my dads side is also a white passing mixed person because 1) we're multiracial, not just black and white 2) that's kinda how colonization works 3) my mother's genetics are VERY strong, maternal genes being extremely dominant runs through my family (I look almost exactly like my mother, she looks almost exactly like my Grammy, etc) 4) Race as a concept in Louisiana is really fucky because the French didn't categorize race in the same way the British did and when the British DID finally take over Louisiana, literally whole families were torn apart to fit the British casting system.

I completely understand that the black community has been hurt and they're apprehensive of outsiders, even to the extent of being distrusting of white passing mixed folk. But that doesn't excuse excluding individuals from participating in their OWN CULTURE that they're BLOOD RELATED TO. 100 years ago, I would have been a slave too, even if I do look white.

This is monoracism.

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‘No see it’s fine for me to call a mixed black person the c word and call them a class traitor and look down on them for being white and say I’m gonna take them to court for being a class traitor bc I’m the real victim, ignore me blatantly treating this person being mixed, something they have no control over and is not inherently harmful, as making them below me. Let me call them a slur multiple times, I am the good guy! They’re the racist ones!’

Girl you’re trying to punish a mixed black person for the thing you think I, a white person, did. I didn’t even do those things you’re claiming I did but it is still super fucking racist to go after Oce and admit you’re doing it not because you fault Oce, but to ‘make an example out of Oce’.

Cause like… ya know who else makes examples out of mixed black people, especially bc of a white persons perceived actions?

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This is monoracism and racism.

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Hello to all my followers (plus anyone who just likes this blog) ! I have some… news, if you will? More so a warning, if anything. There’s a situation going on, and it’s… rough. I probably shouldn’t be getting involved but there’s a whole lot of monoracism going on and I don’t exactly want to stand by and let that happen and go unchecked.

So, for the sake of all of you guys, while I will be involving the situation with this blog, anything I rb about it from here on will be (hopefully) appropriately tagged as ‘discourse’. If I forget to tag it as such, please remind me in an ask or DM and I will fix it right away! And a note but please do not harass/target any of the people involved.

However there is a bonus! I’ll try and be more active on this blog now, and answer as many of your guys’ asks as possible to cut the discourse stuff a little.

I completely understand for people who don’t want to partake in said discourse/witness it, because I myself didn’t originally want to get too involved either, and I also completely understand if you are no longer interested in this blog because of it. Yet I figured bare minimum I owe you all that warning. You all are great, and I hope you all have a great day regardless! :3

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Someone I was following was saying how mixed Asian ppl shouldn't celebrate AAPI heritage month bc we're mixed. They were like, oh if youre mixed you have to take a step back. And I was like...what? What the hell kind of take is that? That's some bullshit. I don't get it.

We're Asian. And this is also for us. Ok? Like if that's somehow a problem, that's not on us. Like, maybe there should be a mixed heritage month. Maybe that would solve the issue.

This is monoracism.

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What is RCTA/ECTA? I've never heard of those before

Short for Race Change To Another and Ethnicity Change To Another; they’re a set of terms largely used by people who (falsely) think that they’re able to change their race/ethnicity to another. I’m not the best person to talk to on this topic, admittedly, as I’ve stayed largely out of RCTA/ECTA discussions because I personally am not educated enough to accurately provide a comprehensive explanation for why it’s wrong.

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Being paranoid because of not being black enough, I live in a country that doesn't care much about race so mostly when I say I'm black people are okay with it even when my skin is light

But OTHER people saying that I'm not black, I'm not dark enough, I look just "mixed"

I'm tired of having to say that my grandma (mom's side) is black (and I don't know this grandpa but probably indigenous), my grandpa (dad's side) is black, my grandma (dad's side) is brown/white, my mom is black/indigenous and my dad is white-passing, LIKE, MY FAMILY IS MOSTLY BLACK WITH INDIGENOUS, I'M BLACK AND INDIGENOUS PLS UNDERSTAND THAT IS NOT MY FAULT MY DAD HAVE PALE SKIN 😭

This is monoracism.

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Hi so I’m white and racially indgenous Mexican (not connected to the culture tho… I’m culturally mezitzo). For context, I have brown hair and eyes, olive skin in the winter and tanned skin in the summer, with almond eyes with double eye lids and an almost hooked nose. I most often get mistaken for Chinese, Filipino or waisan.

And I’ve been really struggling with race because I get invasive questions, I’ve been called the c slur for Asians, I’ve bene called a mutt in a racial way etc. it’s like a coin clip whether or not I have white privlage. And I’ve had POC tell me I am a POC but other POC, particularly a dark skinned Black dude who found it to be racist and rude to compare my experiences of being called a mutt by a white teacher to his experiences (which I do agree was wrong) but it leaves me really confused? Cause like obviously a white passing Latino is gonna have a very different time due to anti Blackness and texturism and colorism and in this dudes case, misognoir as well.

I don’t want to dismiss my experiences but I also don’t want to intrude either. He also like for example said I’ve never been followed around in a grocery store but when I’ve been with my mom or my Tió we definitely have had thay happen and I’ve been pulled over way more then other people in my area where it’s mostly white (oregon, USA). I was even curious and asked a teacher whether or not I would have the right to vote as white women (I’m not a woman but that’s what I was assigned) or when Latinos got the right to vote and she said most likely I would have to move to a completely different state, cover up my genealogy, try not to be in the sun etc so damn near impossible.

Am I a person of color? Again if I’m not that’s totally fine and if I am that’s totally fine I’m really confused about my experiences. :(

Yeah, you are a person of color. That guy was being a bit of an asshole. Also, this is monoracism.