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• Transcending The Race Issue by María Arreaza-Coyle - "Many years ago, after proudly telling a Caucasian friend of mine, that like most Hispanics from northern South America, and the Caribbean area, I had black ancestors, he made a defining and unequivocal statement..."
  
  
• From There to Here... by Zoë Welsh - "I've thought many times over the last eight months about where I would or could commit to paper the next chapter of the story of my journey to find the other half of me..."
  
  
• Finding Father by Robert Worrall - "It could almost be surreal, if it wasn't true. Here I am sitting on a beach in the North East of England, a divorcing 35 year old father of two, with my children playing in the sea, contemplating a trip to Africa's most populous State to meet my birth father for the first time...."
  
  
• Am I Black? by Zoë Welsh - "It was a journey that I think I always knew I would make. A journey that in the end, I knew I would have to make, to a destination I feared I might never reach. You see for me, this was more than a journey. This was a search to find the answer to a question I'd been askign myself my entire life..."
  
  
• Fragmented Identities Among Postcolonial Fijians:
  Extending the Hand of Kinship and Respecting the Right to Choose "Lucy de Bruce is from the Kailoma community of Fiji. Kailomas are the descendants of indigenous Fijians and European settlers who became the first 'blended people' of the Fiji Islands during the early nineteenth century. They are also known as Vasu. Over the years the category has grown to include other blood mixtures, although the emphasis is always in relation to one's Fijian ancestry..."
  
  
• Challenging The Concept Of Race by Darren Chetty - "... I think I am still dealing with the paradox of needing to accept that I am perceived as different whilst wanting to challenge the preconceptions that inform such a perception..."
  
  
• That's The Way Love Goes... by Tami Wright - "Life when you're young and in love and in a mixed race relationship doesn't seem to have changed that much. Every simple decision like where you go for a drink, go shopping or buy a house because anytime soon a small minded creep can make comment or do something to invade your privacy..."
  
  
• 2001: A Race Odyssey by Ishraga Lloyd - "2001 will herald a new age. The change may not be noticed by most people, but for the growing number of mixed race Britons the next census will give them their first opportunity for official recognition. For a group which has been consistently ignored and marginalised throughout history this is a milestone. For all of us, this new box to tick on the ethnic origin question raises some fundamental issues about how we define ourselves and others..."
  
  
• A Vibrant Mix
  
  
  • To White People I Am Black And To Some Black People I Am White by Terence Facey - "...My name is Terence Facey. I am a photographer, born of mixed parentage. I use photography as a means of documenting my search for identity..."
    
    
  • Growing Into My Skin by Ishraga Lloyd - "Now I thank God that I am mixed race, although for many years I resented the fact that I was different because it brought trouble to my door. I remember being on a bus one day when I was about 13 and suddenly noticing that my hand was brown. Everyone else on the bus was white and I wondered what they were thinking about me. I imagined bad things..."
    
    
  • My Journey 'Home' by Jawad Al Nawab - "It had been a long journey, one of joy, pain and struggle. I was born 34 years ago into a mixed race English-Arab/Iraqi marriage. A father with the name Mohammed and a mother named Shirley seemed the most natural thing in the world to me..."
    
    
  • My Identities by Carl Callam - "As a black person growing up in a white area and outside of my biological family, I have often been aware of my fragmented identity constantly under flux..."
    
    
• Time to Choose the Right Box by Jill Olumide - "...I think we have probably all run through the arguments about the 'other' category on equal opportunities monitoring forms. Let's face it, it is pretty marginal and suggests a lack of clear definition about what mixed race is. But will a 'mixed race' option be any more enlightening?..."