ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with mixed race identity in Norway. Race and ethnicity are concepts that both block and enable certain ways of acting that are also embedded in official racialized knowledge regimes, such as census forms and dictionaries. The enactment of race and ethnicity as total societal fact is never a finished process. One of the historical reasons for the turn away from "race" is the way it was made problematic as a scientific truth. It is un-scientific to talk about "race", while "ethnicity" is scientific. Bearing this in mind, scientific regimes of truths are established as a means of distinguishing what is legitimate and what is not. Biological thinking never left the room. It was just grafted onto the very term, ethnicity, that was thought to bring an end to the term race and subsequently racism.
