Are Mixed-race Folks too Black for White People and too White for Black People?

Identity disjuncture. It’s a topic explored exhaustively in the academic world, but often overlooked in people’s everyday excavations. The disconnect that people of mixed heritage face is a sharp, dissecting sword which can sever. We need to talk more about this topic, even if it only affects a small number of people.

Between 3–4% of the UK’s population are registered as mixed-race, and less than 1% specifically as ‘Mixed White Black-Caribbean’, which is the official label the British government likes to foist on the brow of people like me. Growing up, I never really thought about the fact that I…