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Confronting racism through global travel, biracial life in Canada, and transracial adoption, with Jordana Manchester, Ep. 63
Ep. 63: Jordana Manchester is Biracial (White mom, Black
dad). She was raised by her her mother and her White adoptive
father (he married her mother when she was 4 years old and they had
her younger brother a year later). So she was raised in an
all-White household.
After several years in Winnipeg, where she suffered overt
racism, Jordana and her family moved back to Vancouver, which
marked the beginning of her ethnic and culturally confused
adolescence. She was the only Black kid in school and kids swung
from expecting her to "act Black" to accusing her of being "not
Black enough" or acquaintances would refer to me as the "Whitest
Black person I know."
After high school, Jordana embarked upon world travel, which
eventually led her to study anthropology and these two things
(travel and her studies) led her to create the travel and culture
website, The Urban
Xenophile, which Jordana hopes will help bring own racial
barriers by inspiring ALL ethnic groups to travel and exchange
ideas with one another.
For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his
website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or
visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic)
or on Twitter at @barnettcomic
To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please click here:
MULTIRACIAL FAMILY MAN PODCAST
Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
(incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Ep. 63: Jordana Manchester is Biracial (White mom, Black
dad). She was raised by her her mother and her White adoptive
father (he married her mother when she was 4 years old and they had
her younger brother a year later). So she was raised in an
all-White household.
After several years in Winnipeg, where she suffered overt
racism, Jordana and her family moved back to Vancouver, which
marked the beginning of her ethnic and culturally confused
adolescence. She was the only Black kid in school and kids swung
from expecting her to "act Black" to accusing her of being "not
Black enough" or acquaintances would refer to me as the "Whitest
Black person I know."
After high school, Jordana embarked upon world travel, which
eventually led her to study anthropology and these two things
(travel and her studies) led her to create the travel and culture
website, The Urban
Xenophile, which Jordana hopes will help bring own racial
barriers by inspiring ALL ethnic groups to travel and exchange
ideas with one another.
For more on host, Alex Barnett, please check out his
website: www.alexbarnettcomic.com or
visit him on Facebook (www.facebook.com/alexbarnettcomic)
or on Twitter at @barnettcomic
To subscribe to the Multiracial Family Man, please click here:
MULTIRACIAL FAMILY MAN PODCAST
Intro and Outro Music is Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
(incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons - By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/