In the sixth episode of On Being Biracial, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley interrogate the artistic and cultural representations of the biracial experience, both those created by mixed people and those created to make a point about them, ranging from 19th century novels to actors wrestling with race in their roles today.

In this episode, you will learn:

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  How our mainstream culture is rapidly embracing more nuanced representations of multiracial issues and narratives, including through children's books and television.

  
  

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  How historical stereotypes of biracial people have been driven and defined by monoracial people, and how some of those stereotypes still persist.

  
  

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  About actors' attempts to navigate assumptions about their own race and their ability to portray characters based on the biases and assumptions of directors and producers.

  
  

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  The negative impact of language education and speech pathology on some multiracial youth, stripping them of connections to their ancestral cultures.

  
  

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  Why podcasts (like this one!) are proving to be a place for the formation of group identity among biracial people, which has been previously denied to us.

  
  

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: Ep. 6 "The Way I Make Sense of the World" - Transcript

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For more content about topics referenced in this episode, please check out the following links:

Barbara Idalissee Abadia-Rexach's Negras Podcast

Rachael Go's The Mix'd Movement Podcast

Mixed, a documentary

Youth Voices Episode of On Being Biracial

Daralyse and Azaria's Podcast Demystifying Diversity, Season 3

John Blake's More Than I Imagined

Lise Funderburg's Black, White, Other