Dunwell says she used to think of her complicated identity as a "curse," but she now thinks being multiracial is "great."
"In general, I feel a little more accepted [at Harvard]," she says. "I'm an individual, I'm different," she adds.
A Club for Everyone?
"It's very difficult to fit in," Sen says. Sen, whose mother is Mexican and whose father is Indian, adds that the people who go to the South Asian Association (SAA) or RAZA are exclusively South Asian or Mexican, respectively.
Sen says she feels alienated from these ethnic groups.
"It's really hard when you come here and are targeted [by groups]," she says. "Society doesn't usually ask you to identify as one or the other, unlike groups here, which do ask you to identify as one or the other."
And though Ajudua says there is "no stigma" to being a mixed-race person on campus, she hasn't "identified with the black community."
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