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When mixed racial identity makes belonging complicated everywhere

I am biracial and grew up in a mostly white area and now I live in a diverse city but I still feel too white for some spaces and too brown for others.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Multiracial identity can create perpetual outsider status in communities organized around singular ethnic belonging.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging and identity — who belongs here?”

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