When examining the issue of multiracial identity, it is important to understand the legacy of white supremacy. |
When examining the issue of multiracial identity, it is important to understand the legacy of white supremacy. It is a theory and practice based on the irrational opinion that white Europeans (mainly Anglo-Saxon and Northern European origin) are inherently superior to non-Anglo-Saxon origin peoples—particularly those of African and Asian ancestry. Moreover, it is also a theory and practice that hover over the subject and analysis of miscegenation. Absurd as it is, we have an approximate 500-year history of European domination and subjugation of African and Asian peoples, yet wherever Europeans have colonised they have sexually intermingled with the indigenous populations. Apart from this obvious paradox, it is a taboo subject that should be exposed, yet rarely does this occur in an academic sense.
Mark Christian. Multiracial Identity: An International Perpective (Palgrave: Hampshire, England, 2000), p 105.
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