ABSTRACT
Iracially identify as mixed. To be more specific, the author have family from Southwest Asia and Europe, but he do not identify strongly with a singular racial or ethnic identity—although he have begun feeling more comfortable identifying as Middle Eastern/Southwest Asian with the movement toward disaggregating our communities from the White racial category. He would describe his life as being a transnational mixed experience—perhaps more similar to the existence of a transnational adoptee—than resembling the life experiences of most biracial Americans. He have always had anxiety when answering curious and prying questions meant to uncover what is “not quite White” about him or when asserting his racial identity to those who derive their conclusion about it from his light complexion.
