In week 6, our theme is with respect to “New Frontiers in Mixed Race Studies”. There are three readings on Canvas relating to the theme: “Emerging Paradigms in Critical Mixed-Race Studies” by Daniel, G. Reginald, Kina, Laura, Dariotis, and Wei Ming, et al., “The Current State of Multiracial Discourse” by McKibbin and Molly Littlewood, and “Only the News They Want to Print: Mainstream Media and Critical Mixed-Race Studies” by Spencer and Rainier. I mainly focus on one of the readings, “The Current State of Multiracial Discourse” by McKibbin and Molly Littlewood. This reading contains too much information about multiraciality making me hard to digest all of it, and yet I am very interested in how race-mixture individuals identify themselves in regard to social movement comparing with black community. Although there was a controversial discussion about whether people with multiraciality should claim themselves as monoracial heritage or as a new group of identity, politics takes the significance of group identification more seriously rather than self-proclaimed identify. In other words, comparing with Black community, for instance, multiracial individuals are comparatively hard to be classified into one specific group, just like what the article stated in page 4, “proclaiming a multiracial identity is thus complicated by the fact that heterogeneity within multiraciality is much more difficult (if not impossible) to make into a homogeneous identity the way blackness was in the past”. Therefore, multiracial movement is challenged by easily identifiable group, such as black movement.
After reading throughout the article, I could feel the hardship of being a multiracial person. Especially I used to be quite struggled about knowing which community really belongs to me, who I am and where I am from. However, I have to admit that despite the limited social recognition for multiraciality, self-identified process, for the most part, is considerably imperative for race-mixture people. Thus, we need to often ask ourselves a question: Who am I?
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2017/06/08/462395722/racial-impostor-syndrome-here-are-your-stories
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