Rhi-Mixed Views

I see both worlds so clearly, and I skip and jump and dance and fall between, never seen. I belong in the spaces between. Check all that may apply. - Ginny and Georgia S1 E8: Check one, check other Ginny and Georgia is a Netflix series that focuses on the two main characters, 15 year old Black mixed-heritage daughter Ginny, and her white southern mother, Georgia. It follows the story of the two with their son/brother, Austin, as they move to a predominantly white rich neighborhood to start a new life.  There are many themes within this show, such as socioeconomic status, romance, coming of age, friendship, sexism, sexuality, revenge, mystery and more, but the theme I want to discuss in this blog is how they represent racial identity.  Ginny and her parents  As mentioned, Ginny's mother, Georgia, is a blond, beautiful, white southern woman, who uses her charm and sexuality to survive through the harsh life she has been handed. Her father, Zion, is a Black man who met Georg...

  "Everyday spaces are rife with diverse social dynamics, power, and subjectivity, much like Gregson and Rose suggest: ``performed spaces are not discreet, bounded spaces, but threatened, contaminated, stained, enriched by other spaces'' - Mahtani (2002) Tricking the border guards: performing race . Back in March, I was made to feel I could not eat lunch. We meet at 12pm in the same building we always do, we sit down in the room we do every week, with the people who typically show up, with a few new faces.  We finish our lunches and were about to leave the room, when someone makes a comment about 'what Chinese people do'. I turn around as, I myself am Chinese, and just question what they have just said. I say "well I am Chinese and I don't do that" to assert the falseness of their general comment about the Chinese community. To visualize the room, I was stood between this white woman and a table of Chinese PhD students having lunch, with a white man r...