How Mixed-Race People with Two or More Identities of Color Experience Unhooking from Whiteness

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Abstract

While scholarship on mixed-race/multiracial/biracial post-secondary students has been steadily growing, most (either intentionally or unintentionally) has focused on students with one identity of color and one white identity.  There is a need for more research specifically looking at the experiences of post-secondary students with two (or more) identities of color.  This manuscript seeks to examine narratives of these students viewed through the lens of Hayes’ (2013) unhooking from whiteness, seeking to interrogate how students consciously and subconsciously decenter whiteness from the racialized narratives of their lives.

Author

• Josh Manlove, Indiana University - Indianapolis