ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses questions of identity by engaging with the young adult's routine experiences of being positioned as 'different', but it is ultimately concerned with how the young people manipulate and resist processes of identification and (mis)recognition. The author highlights the different expectations that people are under when creating an account of themselves without losing sight of the power the young adults express when they direct attention to their multiple subjectivities and undermine processes of racialisation. A large part of the focus in this chapter falls on the ways racialised identities are manipulated and resisted, rather than accommodated.
