Hidden Agendas, Identity Theories, and Multiracial People

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My thinking on the present subject originates in struggling to create an identity out of two normally disparate ethnic heritages: black American and Japanese. Working with no role models made the process simultaneously problematic and enlightening. Tied up in these feelings was how I felt about the experience, how others interpreted it for me, fused with a need to fit in. Looking back on those years, I now know that I grappled with feeling out of place, an emotion partially related to adolescence but also to contradictory messages I received about my own heritage. I grew up on Army posts, where the overt ideology was that “we” and “they” were unrelated ...

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