Jonathan Poirier

Photographer + Director
Sài Gòn / Montréal
jonathanpoirier03@gmail.com
instagram: @thankujj

MY TRIBE: REFLECTING ON MIXED RACE AS A FLUID IDENTITY

(2021 - )


My Tribe: Reflecting on Mixed-Race as a Fluid Identity, is a cultural informative study, and personal testimony about multiple Mixed-race identities from the colonial era to present days. Exploring the racial structures of countries such as Canada, the United-States, Jamaica, South-Africa, China, and the UK. There is a very limited amount of scholar articles that can be associated with experiences of current young mixed-race groups.

In a way, with the help of the available texts and personal experiences, photographing those mixed-race people gives the opportunity to look into the nuances, puzzle in how colonial soft powers are affecting mixed-race people, and to better understand the position of a multiracial person moving against the background of a world where identity politics is forced onto them. Regardless of where we are from, confusion has long been associated with multiracialism. Confusion should be reworded with fluidity, which is in turn crucial in understanding mixed-race identities.

In this series: Sydney Léger, Ella Ampadu, Younesse Moubarik, Akram Rezgui, Michael Tran, David Méus, Youssef El Ouassbi, Akram Benayad, Helena Corry, Phuong Nam, Joseph Ohoiwutun Bonvarlet, Clémentine Bonvarlet, Pius Ohoiwutun, Sasha Lamontagne.

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