Changing Race, Changing Gender: Mixed-Race Positionality

• In Event: 324 - Section on Race, Gender, and Class Roundtable Session (one-hour).
  In Refereed Roundtable: Table 08. RGC and Identity

Abstract

How much do others’ perceptions of our race matter? Based on ethnographic research, some mixed race transgender individuals shared experiences of changing race as they physically transitioned gender. The markers others drew upon to ascribe a racial, gendered, sexual, national, and classed identity to them had a profound effect on their sense of self and their experiences of inequality. What, then, can this tell us about the concept of race and racial identity?

Author

• Kylan Mattias de Vries, Southern Oregon University