Exactly. One of my biggest pet peeves is how the “half” or “part” language remains so deeply ingrained within Asian American discourse. Mixed race people aren’t “half” anything. https://twitter.com/joseiswriting/status/1361884962677395458

The fractional way in which we try to divide mixed race people uses a fucked up racial purity standard to argue that multiracial people have lesser claim to any racial identity than non-mixed race people.

It also utterly fails to reflect the fact that Asian American is a political project, one that can surely withstand many different types of people with diverse mixed and non-mixed race backgrounds helping to shape and define what it is.

We can talk about how multiracial or mixed race Asian Americans experience Asian Americanism differently, and even talk about colorism, skin privilege, and intersectionality without having to render their membership in Asian America as “half” that of non-mixed race folk.

Instead of rendering mixed race people some sort of stitched together Frankenstein monster of mismatched “half-people parts”, let’s reimagine talking about multiracial identity the same way we talk about all people — as an intersection of a multiplicity of political identities.

Above all, let’s stop weaponizing mixed race identity to selectively police or eject some mixed race Asian Americans from our borders when it’s convenient (while claiming others) because they aren’t (or don’t look) “Asian enough” — whatever that’s even supposed to mean.

Multiracial Asian Americans are full citizens of the Asian American project. Period. Full stop.