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Just to play devil's advocate, Halle Berry IS a well-known actress of mixed race. Her father was African-American and her mother was English and German.

I was under the understanding that that was considered "black" in the US, as Obama (who is also of mixed-race, with a white mother) is constantly referred to as "the first black president", not "the first mixed-race president".

The idea that a mixed-race individual is always, or even most of the time, identified only by their POC status troubles me, because it erases a part of their own history and heritage. It affects me personally as a person who is of mixed heritage--if I were to always identify as Asian and gloss over the whole half of my family who are white, it would be a dishonor to my mother and everything her family's been through. Barack Obama identifies as African American, but you can't deny that his mother's family holds a special place in his heart. I can't speak for Halle Berry because I don't know her relationship to her mother's family, but she may feel the same.

Popularly, she's African American, but at the very least, she's biologically of mixed heritage.

-if I were to always identify as Asian and gloss over the whole half of my family who are white, it would be a dishonor to my mother and everything her family's been through

I'm Asian/white as well, and I really empathize with this. This is exactly how I feel about how I identify myself. Also, I find where I live in Canada the 'one drop rule' isn't as prevalent and people don't expect you to choose between your various backgrounds.

identified only by their POC status troubles me, because it erases a part of their own history and heritage

It really depends on how they look, if you're leaning to looking more on the white side then it goes the other and people ignore you're other heritage. Also, people don't seem to take into account people who land perfectly in the middle, or who don't like either parent (like myself). We just get a lot of 'ooooh, what are you?'.

Edited 2012-11-06 01:52 (UTC)

'ooooh, what are you?'

Ugh, I get this soooooo much. Or people like to guess, like it's a fun game... I don't know why.

It is all dependent on how the person identifies. Barack Obama identifies as a black man, Halle Berry identifies as a woman of mixed descent.