Being Irish, mixed race and living abroad: it’s complicatedPosted in Articles, Arts, Identity Development/Psychology, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive, United Kingdom on 2017-12-03 22:06Z by Steven |
Being Irish, mixed race and living abroad: it’s complicated
The Irish Times
2017-12-01
Conrad Bryan, Treasurer
Irish in Britain
 A scene from Hashtag Lightie, playing at the Arcola Theatre in north London. |
London play ‘Hashtag Lightie’ puts the spotlight on mixed-race identity
I live in London, a melting pot of cultures and ethnicities. It is a place where anything goes and where people of different ethnicities have always mixed, loved and married.
However, today the binary black and white notion of race is being challenged by the younger generation. They are choosing for themselves where they sit on the colour spectrum and how they self-identify. No longer will they accept other people labelling them.
Many are choosing to self-identify as mixed-race rather than black, which is causing a real debate in the black community here. This has many consequences for individuals struggling to determine where they fit in society, or what side to take…
Read the entire article here.
