The Race Dilemma Podcast

#08 - Interview with Caroline Dyer - Given up for adoption to white parents wasn't without its challenges but the confusion was from outsiders, rather than at home.

The stigma attached to having a mixed-race child caused Caroline’s maternal mother to give her for adoption at only a few months old.

Her adoptive parents endured being snubbed by neighbours, confused as to why they hadn’t adopted a white baby. Nonetheless, Caroline’s parents couldn’t have been more loving and offered support and encouragement in her upbringing and development.

#07 - Dr Nalishebo Elliott - Growing up in Zambia to Becoming The First Woman Of Colour To Win Miss World Austrialia 1999 - But Not Without Racial Prejudices

Born a twin in Zambia to an African mother and an Australian father, Nalishebo and her siblings moved with their father to The Northern Territory, Australia aged 13.

Dealing with the emotional tear from their mother 7000 miles away, they had to endure racial suffering in the Australian outback.

But amidst the emotional pain and suffering, she carved a road to success, representing Australia in Miss world 1999 and more recently receiving her doctorate degree and title as Dr Nalishebo Elliott.

Nonetheless, historical wounds can take their time to heal.

#06 - The Race Dilemma Podcast - Summary Episode - The Story So Far...

We’d thought we’d just summarise briefly the last 5 episodes and bring to a close the family season of the race dilemma. Although closure is not something that is written in stone, we hope the story may continue...

 

But for now, we will broaden the conversation out further afield to people outside the family who have shown an interest in sharing their stories.

#05 - The Race Dilemma - Cousin Esther Hallman shares her story of growing up with a Pakistani father and German mother

In this episode, we speak with our first cousin Esther Hallman.

Of Pakistani and German heritage, growing up in a suburb of west London, she didn’t always find it easy to fit in a particular group…a result of a mixed heritage background or simply her nature?

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#04 - The Race Dilemma - Stuart Morrison shares what it was like growing up with his Anglo Indian heritage without obviously looking Anglo Indian

The story continues with another family member, this time with our cousin Stuart Morrison and although of Anglo Indian heritage, Stuart’s fair skin colour never left him in doubt about his very proud background but soon realised that the confusion was with other people.

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#03 - Race Dilemma - Abel Sloane gives his take on growing up with a mixed heritage and shares some interesting insights about perceptions of people of colour in today’s society.

This episode is a conversation with Daniel's son Abel, and although only two years younger, his appearance is different to his sister Florence… he has an olive skin tone and brown curly hair and according to his sister, he has a more exotic look about him.

This is the first time he’s ever expressed an interest in voicing his opinion on his mixed heritage. Seemingly was never really affected by any negativity his heritage may have encouraged, Abel gives good insight about perceptions of people of colour in today’s society.

#02 - Race Dilemma - Florence Sloane speaks about growing up looking white on the outside but feeling brown on the inside.

The catalyst for this podcast, Daniel's daughter Florence Sloane, tells her story of how being white on the outside left her feeling unqualified to contribute to conversations about racism, even though close members of her family had experienced it first hand. This presented a race dilemma for her...

Growing up she thought she looked Asian only to find out that other Asian girls thought otherwise and it was the realisation that people generally thought she was white and made assumptions about how she might think.

In this episode, Florence shares her experience of being perceived as white whilst still feeling very connected and proud of her Pakistani heritage. 

#01 - Introduction - Drew and Daniel explore their first experiences of being made to feel racially different.

In the first episode, we give a brief insight into one or two of our experiences in which racism made a big impact on us - our first realisation that we were in fact of a mixed background and that people judged us on our skin colour, left us a little confused about where we fitted in, mainly due to the way in which we were perceived by others.