Research shows, the multicultural person can be left feeling unidentifiable, multiphrenic (the condition of being simultaneously drawn in multiple, conflicting directions), unauthentic, uncommitted, or even completely detached over the frustration of adjusting their identity to meet societal demands. Being Mixed hopes to provide validation for these unaddressed emotions and a guideline out of the uncertainty which accompanies these feelings.

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Field Work

1 Chin, Elizabeth, and Chelsea Diaz. Proposal to Create the Multiracial & Ethnic

Collective (MREC). 2018.

2 Voices from All Related Art Collective in Hamburg, Germany

Research

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26 Voices from Online Multiracial Communities

Blended Future Project

Mixed Life Media

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