In this week’s reading, the topic of discussion is “New Frontiers in Mixed Race Studies.” From the second reading, “The Current State of Multiracial Discourse" by Molly Littlewood McKibbin, we have this discussion of multiracial where being special and community differences really caught my attention. It seems like an interesting debate-like topic whether or not just continuing to live and show that you are just like everybody else is better or worse than understand and express how special one’s genetic difference makes them. The way she compares the two mixed-race people in their specific areas like the Mexican-Jewish person in San Diego with the black-Jewish kid in the Upper West Side of New York. I could definitely see both sides of this argument. What does make a biracial community? And what holds us together with other than a perceived sense of our own difference from the ethnic mainstream? These are two very interesting questions quoted by the author of the article, which makes one think about it just making mixed-race people, just people. There isn’t some other bond that instantly connects people that are biracial, just as not any two white people off the streets can connect. I guess they can connect based on their experience of white privilege, but what else? It emphasizes, to me, being multiracial is only outstanding because the norm in society is monoracial.
Is there an argument that something else binds this community together, other than the fact that they are all multiracial?
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