Mixed race and white-passing?

[gellert]

Any other mixed people out there?

 

What about white-passing mixed?

 

What did you put for race on your application?  White, or Mixed?  

 

I feel like anyone who sees me would think I'm white, but I'm actually also part Black.  My heritage is important to me, but I do experience light-skinned privilege due to my skin tone.

 

Thanks in advance!

[beyondaboundary]

Claim your identity. I'm multi-racial, proudly so...I claim my status as other any chance I get. Do you want to be seen as white? If not there is no question here.

[Monochrome Spring]

I'm 3/4 white and 1/4 Thai, so I mark the white and asian boxes, or mixed if it's available.

 

Just because you look dominantly white doesn't mean that you aren't also those other races.

[MsDarjeeling]

I am a mix of many things and since I find such questions on applications irritating I tend to check all the damn boxes heehehe.  Seriously, what are they going to do?  Have the gall to argue with me? 

[Kwest]

I kinda agree with msdarjeeling...I consider myself to be multi-racial as opposed to biracial, despite the fact that my mother identifies as white (she is half Japanese) and my father identified as black (he was about a quarter native American) so I check all that apply. The only thing that irks me is when forms disallow multi selections, don't provide a multi-racial option and only give an alternative choice of 'other'. To me, other implies something outside the normal...I never answer the question when its like this. Im proud to say what I identify as...but 'other' does not accomplish this.

Edited September 18, 2013 by Kwest

[Westcoastchemist]

I am half-Chinese and half-British. I always like to tick off both boxes. Being multiracial/mixed/hapa is an important part of my identity, and matters to me even on these silly forms.

 

However, for the Scripps application, they have the following options and I can only select one! There is no "other" or "decline to answer" option, which is really bothering me because it's so close-minded... I'm not sure which one I should pick. Luckily they can't judge anything based on this! (it's a policy in California)

 

American Indian or Alaskan Native

Asian

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

Black or African American

Hispanic or Latino

White