Week 10




Come the end of this class, I find myself still thinking about how place, space, and migration funnel into identity formation. In regards to matters of migration, mixed-race identities, and citizenship, for example, I still have a lot to sift through in terms of what it means to be in flux, to be at rest, to be in departure, to encroach upon an arrival, and to be in a comfortable proximity to different types of personal and material security.

I am also still curious about racial identity formation as/within a framework of collaboration. Many of our classes engaged with one specific identity at a time. Although minority identities are necessarily woven together by a common struggle for freedom and understanding in various capacities, I am wondering how these different identities actively work to inform each other cross-culturally. We spoke about passing and some of the negotiations and consequences mixed-race identities carry and eject, but that relationship often times seemed told as one of discord. What are ways that racial minorities inform one another in ways that aren't appropriative, but rather generative. What expressions of identity are not borrowed from or belonging to specific populations but are actually manifestations of something that is, and must be, shared or polyracial?

Lastly, i'm thinking back to our first classes in which we identified what we thought to be markers of identity.  A conversation I would like to continue in my future study is how class operationalizes itself differently amongst/within different racial minorities. Race is always being classed and how this is distinguished by racial context/content is a nuance and distinction I don't have a critical understanding of and would like to.

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