ABSTRACT

Mary: When someone’s angry with me and they’re not my friend, they’ll go behind my back and they’ll go, um, ‘oh, she’s white!’ and they’ll like say ‘oh the white b-i-t-c-h’ something like that.

SA: And do you think you are Yoruba? John: Yeah, but I like people calling me half-caste. SA: If I asked you to describe yourself [in terms of ‘colour’] what would

you say? T: I love yo-yos. SA: You’d say that you loved yo-yos? T: That’s the only way I can describe myself.