• Emma Lo.
• Yale University Department of Psychiatry, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, Connecticut Emma.Lo@yale.edu.
• Ann Fam Med. 2021 Jan 1; 19 (1): 72-74.

AbstractA patient shouts what he suspects is my racial background at my face. A colleague repeats a patient's racist remarks against me; I lurk in my whiteness to cope. A compliment about my Asianness lands as a racist devaluation of both sides of my heritage. The medical licensing board does not include my race on its registration form. Straddling the boundary of Asian and White as a biracial female psychiatrist, I struggle to handle exoticization, discriminatory assumptions, and subtle marginalization by patients and colleagues. I grapple with the privilege of light-skinned ethnic ambiguity vs the disrespect for having features deviating from the imagined physician appearance. In this piece, I introduce a nuanced dialog about race and advocate for recognition and inclusion of biracial and multiracial minority medical practitioners who defy oversimplified racial categories.© 2021 Annals of Family Medicine, Inc.

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