In the eighth episode of On Being Biracial, hosts Daralyse Lyons and Malcolm Burnley look at the families we're born into and brought into as biracial people, and why those relationships can sometimes be trickier to navigate.

In this episode, you will learn:

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  How some multiracial households are at greater risk for instability than their monoracial counterparts, while others can be havens for inclusion.

  
  


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  Why hope can be found in the progress of race relations within multiracial families, even while it can feel elusive on a societal scale.
  

  
  


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  How multiracial relationships and families test relationships with one's extended family members.

  
  

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  How racist stereotypes about interracial families were used in recent history to justify policies and social conditions that kept Black people suppressed and segregated.

  
  


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  Why intergenerational households can be prone to silence, distance, bigotry and hypocrisy.

  
  

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: Identity Amputated - Transcript

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

WURD Segment with Daralyse & Malcolm

Rachael Go's The Mix'd Movement Podcast

John Blake's More Than I Imagined

Lise Funderburg's Black, White, Other

W. Kamau Bell's 1000% Me

Malcolm's Philly Mag essay on fatherhood

Charlotte Gill's Almost Brown