A turbulent few years at school left Cherise questioning her place in the world, but now she’s happy to embrace who she is.
is a weekly series that aims to shine a light on the highs, lows, joys and contradictions of being mixed-race.
We dig below the surface, beyond outward perceptions and stereotypes, to get to the heart of the mixed-race experience.is a newly graduated professional. A turbulent few years at school left her questioning her place in the world, but now she’s happy to embrace who she is.‘I am a mix of mixes. My mum is from Barbados, St Vincent and Guyana and my Dad is from Mauritius and Ireland,’ explains Cherise.
‘From a young age I struggled to understand how to love myself or even understand who I was. I didn’t know how I should feel in certain situations or how to deal with the negative stereotypes being thrown at me. ‘In my year, there were only eight black and mixed-race girls and maybe 10 black and mixed-race boys.‘In the early years of school, all my friends were white and I remember one of my friends at the time used the N word – I want to point out that I wasn’t there when she said it.‘She was confronted about it by three girls from the self-named “black girls group”. I stood up for her, not because I agreed with what she said, but because she was scared and her friends were silent.
‘There were periods where my sister and I would stay at our grandparents’ house and they had memorabilia from Guyana and Barbados in every corner.
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