“We’ve sexualised or pornographied mixed race. It’s a very narrow line between exoticisation and sexualisation, fetishisms—where you turn all non-white people into people who exist simply into your own pleasure.
She said that “a person who is half white is more “palatable” and acceptable in society – an idea, she believed, is steeped in racism and prevalent since colonisation.
“Colonialism has circulated the idea that white is best. White is at the top of a kind of hierarchy of humanity… If you believe there is a hierarchy of races, which is what racism is about, a little bit of white is more palatable,”—Dr. Julie Matthews
Lin Taylor, “How far have we come in our acceptance of mixed race people?,” Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), November 14, 2014. http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/11/10/how-far-have-we-come-our-acceptance-mixed-race-people.
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