Race matters. It matters in ways that transcend traditional theorizations of identity,`color',`race' and cultural difference around them/us, center/periphery or inside/ outside categories. This paper draws on interviews with 50 interracial families and argues that the micro-localized site of the family reveals the complex ways in which race discourses and racializing practices are re-articulated within and across diasporic cultural groups and cross-generationally. The data suggest that the formation and`lived experience' of interracial relationships draws individuals through a number of critical change events and into complex and unpredictable sites and moments of`third space' otherness.
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