The Color of Us

This or That: Exploring Multiracial Communities


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EP. 02 of our podcast is now out! In this episode, Rudy Guevarra Jr. was interviewed on topics exploring multiracial communities.Mr. Guevarra Jr. is a leader in the multiracial community and the president of the executive community of the Critical Mixed Race Studies conference. He is also an Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University with research and teaching interests encompassing Comparative Ethnic Studies, Pacific Islander and Asian American Studies as well as Race and Ethnic Relations. He is the author of Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego and co-editor of Transnational Crossroads: Remapping the Americas and the Pacific. His forthcoming publications include Aloha Compadre: Latina/os in Hawaiʻi, Red and Yellow: Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies and Beyond Ethnicity: New Politics of Race in Hawai’i. He has also published articles in the Journal of Asian American Studies, the Journal of San Diego History, and the Asian American Literary Review.In this episode, titled This or That, Mr. Guevarra Jr. talks about the categorization of multiracial individuals as monoracial and the struggles of growing up being told to choose "this or that."

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