The Multiracial Experience

Can thinking about people of mixed heritage help loosen the harmful ways society defines race? If race matters less, how should ethnicity be understood? This collection tests existing scholarly and political ideas about race by drawing on the lived experiences of multiracial people. Every chapter begins with a personal portrait of one contributor's experience of being multiracial. The contributors examine how race and ethnicity differ, how skin colour, gender and sexuality shape life in a multiracial setting, and how ethnicity contributes to the formation of identity.