I loved this book and I feel like I've finally read a book where I'm understood! I could relate so much to each chapter of this book, and it made me feel so much more confident in myself. I'd really recommend it.

I loved this book, as a white person a lot of it made me feel guilty and uncomfortable but I know that is why it is such an important read. Would highly recommend.

Thank you to trapeze/Orion for my earc of this book!
An insightful look into identity and race. I think this would have been a brilliant audiobook.

A real insight into present day British identity which is fast-changing. I appreciated the insights into mixed heritage individuals, particularly those who do not have white family members which is often assumed. This book was shared with my Instagram followers on release date and I've recieved positive feedback from my podcast listeners about elements of the book they really related to. I hope to see more frank perspectives about ethnic identity , particularly around East and Southeast Asian diaspora. Great book!

This book is amazing and has been personally very helpful to me. I have changed the way I identify myself after reading it. As someone who has spent their adult life passing as white, this book came at the right time for me.

Mixed / Other is a fantastic and accessible look at how race is perceived in the UK, and emphasises the important point that everyone’s experience is different—especially when how someone looks is under constant scrutiny, from the media, work, and even friends.

The author has very carefully curated a book that weaves together her own experiences with those of other people in the UK, and case-studies from the media. This highlights just how different everyone’s experience can be—despite being tied together with familiar experiences of racism, profiling or micro aggressions.

The books publication is timely and important, and I highly recommended it. I’m now off to read more of the Natalie Morris’ articles!

This is a very compelling and very intelligent book. I know very little about mixedness and the experience of mixed race people; I know just about a little bit about racism, and this book was so well-researched and so accessible. I think some chapters were less interesting than others and more "basic" - the ones on the fetishization of mixed race women, or mixed race babies, or on beauty standards - they were maybe slightly more... pedestrian? But Natalie Morris really shines when she addresses white passing, and non-white mixed people:

"The erasure of non-white mixed people is nothing new. For decades, the way people have spoken about mixedness has centred whiteness and sidelined everybody else. Even the laws that were created to prevent interracial marriages pivoted around whiteness".

I know it is incredibly naive but I somehow never thought about that experience - of being mixed but non-white, and what it is like and how when we talk about mixedness, there is always the assumption that we are talking about whiteness. The interviews of people she met who have these experiences were really interesting - repetitive at times though - and the book felt personal and intimate, which I really enjoyed.

I also like the fact she reflects a lot on the language she uses and explains why she chooses certain words over others - while acknowledging that this may change in the future. I found it well-written - I particularly appreciated the fact she is from the UK, as I feel a lot of the discourse around racism is often written with the US in mind - and accessible. I maybe would not recommend it to someone who already reads a lot about racism and discrimination - although this really offers a different angle -, but I really enjoyed it.

Mixed/Other by Natalie Morris explores the experiences of being mixed race and issues of identity. A timely and interesting read.

This was a great book of non-fiction. It made me feel things, it made me learn things and it challenged me. This was a great book about the ‘mixed’ experience within Britain today. Through interviews, personal experience and studies the author is able to illustrate how their is not one narrative for people of mixed heritage. However, their are universal themes which makes me think everyone should read this book.