"Wasian Check:" an Investigation of Biracial Identity Through Tiktok Sound Trends

There has been a significant increase in mixed and dual-race voices being shared in our society. With this in mind, it is important to understand how these individuals navigate their sense of identity. In modernizing academic research on biracial individuals', the implications of a generation whose interactions are largely conducted on social media must be considered. Therefore, this research project focuses on biracial White and Asian individuals and their use of the popular social media application TikTok as a tool to examine and analyze topics of identity and belonging for biracial-identifying people. Through an ethnographic approach and the use of both thematic and multimodal discourse analyses to examine video and commentary on three different TikTok sound trends relating to the White/Asian biracial experience, this research aims to explore how TikTok, as a communication platform, is utilized by biracial identifying people to develop their identities through belonging and community.