This week, I found the article The Current State of Multiracial Discourse by McKibbin to be quite interesting. The paper basically talks about some of the problems with multiracial studies and discourses and the things we can do to solve them. She tries to point the reader towards a new direction of understanding mixed race individuals. She argues that although mixed race studies are not new, the study of experiences and identities of mixed race subjects is. What I found very interesting about the paper was that she mentioned how multiracial people cannot fit into categories. Neither their history, nor their skin, can be placed in a single group, and as a result, they form their own community. I agree with this reading, as we often dehumanize individuals when we engage in multiracial discourses. Moving towards a study of experiences and identities of individuals keeps people as people and not as things, and this is very important when studying individuals, especially mixed race individuals. Not only would we study their history, but we would study their feelings and experiences. After reading this piece, my question would be: how can we keep ourselves from dehumanizing mixed race individuals when studying mixed race?
https://stayingaliveisnotenough.blogspot.com/2015/04/we-were-all-humans.html?m=1
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