Ep. 1: This Mixed Identity Thing

In this season's first episode of the On Being Biracial podcast, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley discuss the major themes, throughlines and frameworks derived from our 30 interviews about the multiracial experience, while introducing listeners to many of the voices you'll hear throughout the season.

In this episode, you will learn:

• Why identifying with one race, rather than multiple, remains the norm for the majority of multiracial people in the United States.

• How people who come from multiracial ancestral backgrounds choose to identify in a variety of ways, for a variety of reasons, and why those identities typically change over the course of their lives.

• How stereotypes about mixed people are perpetuated and manipulated by people outside of the experience.

• How binary categories of race influence feelings of belonging for multiracial people in various contexts.

• Why issues of belonging, identity, family, and more can be layered in complicated ways for multiracial individuals.

This season's interviewees are: Ashanti Martin, Azaria Keys, Bárbara Idalissee Abadía-Rexach, Carter O'Brien Ford, Cat Dyson, Chantelle Fitzgerald, Charlotte Gill, David Ryan Barcega Castro-Harris, Drew Allmond, Evan Fong Jaroff, Hannah Wallace, Ian Burnley, Jewel Love, John Blake, Jourdin Davis, Kimberly Ortiz-Hartman, Lise Funderburg, Mat Johnson, Nora Elmarzouky, Rachael Go, Rachel Lauren, Samonte Cruz, Sandra Clark, Sarabella Rocha, Sarah Gaither, Sienna McWhirter, Tyla Taylor, Tyler Sloane, W Kamau Bell, Zein Hassanein, and Mark Hugo Lopez.

Click here for a transcript of the episode: This Mixed Identity Thing - Transcript

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And, for more content referenced in this episode from our hosts and guests on these topics, please check out the following links:

Daralyse's Demystifying Diversity Podcast: Demystifying Diversity - Biraciality

Daralyse's TEDx talk: Black or White? Refusing to Choose & Embracing Biracial Identity

W. Kamau Bell's 1000% Me

Charlotte Gill's Almost Brown

John Blake's More Than I Imagined

Lise Funderburg's Black, White, Other