An easy read with many stories and snippets of information, making it accessible to many. It's not academic by any measure, but has a list of references and further information in the end for further reading. Includes many practical tips, including phrases to use, although a few tips seemed overly simplistic. My book has many post it notes marking interesting or new information that I'll definitely revisit from time to time. Where are you from? … No, where are you really from?’ These two questions haunt those of mixed-race like the plague. I’m from Newcastle. Really. I’m Dyslexic so often find it hard to dive in (or keen in) a book, but this book has been a complete game changer for that. It’s easily digestible, powerful chapters have you gripped, and possibly a few teary eyes.

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But the film is also brimming with hope and shines a light on the many positives that come with having mixed heritage. Hafu: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan is a 2013 Japanese documentary film that explores the intricacies of mixed-race, ethnically half Japanese people called hāfu and their multicultural experiences in modern Japan. The film featured hafu people share their experiences. [2] [3] [4] Such as those who've lived their whole life in Japan. Or those who arrived later in life and others are in between. The contrast between Japanese and other cultures can be akin to two different worlds. It sheds light on what it is like to be multiracial and multicultural in a homogeneous Japan. [5] It seeks to answer the question what does it mean to be hāfu? What does it mean to be Japanese, and what does it mean for Japan? A thorough teaching of the history of race is vitally important within society especially for those who are mixed race. If this type of teaching exists daily in our lifestyles and isn’t swept under the carpet by the establishment, the attitude towards race and racial integration would have changed a long time ago.The UK’s fastest-growing ethnic group is comprised of anyone with parents who have two of more different ethnicities – and the varieties within that group are almost endless. I didn't expect to relate to this book as much as I did. To read a book with such overlapping struggles and experiences felt extremely validitating. To know that there are so many people who understand in one way or another what it is to be mixed race (and to have that put into a book) is empowering. Brett, J., & Moran, A. (2011). Cosmopolitan nationalism: Ordinary people making sense of diversity. Nations and Nationalism, 17(1), 188–206. I identify proudly as a multiracial woman and as a woman of color. This is because the world sees me as a woman of color. I’ve never been perceived as a white woman.

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Kaufmann, E. (2018). Whiteshift: Populism, immigration and the future of white majorities. Penguin. I was initially drawn to this book as I am always keen to learn about experiences that are different to my own. However, the book led me to reflect on my own experiences as identifying as mixed-race: my own father is from India but I inherited whiter skin than other family members leading to more privilege than others. As a result I found the book profoundly moving and useful. Last year, Vox asked people of mixed descent to tell us how they felt about race and if the language about their identities had shifted over time. Among the 70 responses submitted, we read stories of people with vastly different experiences depending on their racial makeup, how their parents raised them, where they lived and where they wound up living, and, perhaps most importantly, how they look. But over and over again, we heard from respondents that they frequently felt isolated, confused about their identity, and frustrated when others attempted to dole them out into specific boxes. As I got older and progressed into the engineering world, I sort of shifted. That was probably the first time I was in a very white-dominant setting. I did a lot of stuff to play my Latinoness down until I left for the social impact field where I thought I could sort of reconnect with the Latino pieces of me . SquarePeghas scooped the debut book by Natalie and Naomi Evans, founders of the anti-racist activist platform Everyday Racism.

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At the same time, I didn’t want to feel like that was denying my mom. Even though I don’t identify as a white person, I was raised by a white mom who has a beautiful history and life too. So I don’t like to discount that. I know you are tagging me because of how this relates to [son] but I was like should I comment on this? Because really I'm just white af I’m here to tell you, after 25 years of writing and interrogating my own roots and identity, that it doesn’t have to be this way. But where do we begin, especially if we barely know any other mixed-race people?