The construction of white supremacy and its impact on interracial relationships and mixed-race identity

Abstract

‘White supremacist ideology, through colonial and eugenics policies, has had a significant impact on how interracial relationships and mixed-race identity are viewed. This chapter focuses on three specific impacts. First, how white supremacist colonial thinking has created and sustained harmful attitudes towards interracial relationships and mixed-race people through unpacking the construction of processes of racialisation, the exoticisation of black and brown bodies, and the policing of interracial relationships. Second, how white supremacy has impacted mixed-race people, as racialised bodies, and the legacies of white supremacist ideology in the creation of intergenerational trauma. And finally, how white supremacy impacts the well-being of mixed-race people and those in interracial relationships. Ultimately, this chapter argues the need for decolonial, radical, and intersectional practices of care that decentre white supremacist ideology.