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"I am just like you, except, I’m not just like you. We are Black girls. We are beautiful. I am a Black girl or so I thought. My Black girl card gets revoked at will, my light skin and their Blackness, like oil and water, didn’t mix. I am not Black enough sometimes even though I carry the Black girl ‘ugly’ on my shoulders since I identified as Black. I obtained an ‘ism I am still working through."
12 beautiful portraits of black identity challenging the "One-Drop" rule Link
New National Geographic article: Visualizing Race, Identity, and Change
http://proof.nationalgeographic.com/2013/09/17/visualizing-change/
Joy DeGruy tells a story of how her biracial sister-in-law who passes for white uses her white privilege to stand up against systemic racial inequity.
Interesting article and comments about the dilemma that many inter-racial couples face when raising children who appear white but have a multi-racial background
What test did your sister take to get this? I'd like to have mine done.
She sent my DNA in for the "World Origins Test" from www.africadna.comThis is the company used by Henry Louis Gates Jr. They also have maternal and paternal DNA tests that gave give you some more specific results from your mother and fathers side.
My sister got my DNA tested as a birthday gift. Completely re-affirms my identity as a Quadroon. The Middle Eastern portion is a surprise but likely related to Jewish great-great grandparents on my white side.
For MLK day last week, we watched this simple, kid-friendly Brainpop Jr. video about Dr. Martin Luther King. After it finished, I briefly synopsized it to make sure the kids, especially the younger ones, had a good sense for why we celebrate his birthday. There was a short, weighty pause while everyone let that chunk of history sink in. And then this innocent 4-year-old cherub that I teach took a deep breath and said, "Well . . . I'm glad I'm white."
This is a really interesting blog post. I had completely forgotten about this, but when I was a small child, 4 or 5, race was on my mind alot. I knew I was different from my dad and sister, and I knew I was lucky. Even then. White privilege is real. http://www.blogher.com/well-im-glad-im-white
Poster for the 1971 film "Quadroon"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069138/
From a New York Times article dated March 9, 1855, which read:
A WHITE SLAVE FROM VIRGINIA. We received a visit yesterday from an interesting little girl, — who, less than a month since, was a slave belonging to Judge NEAL, of Alexandria, Va. Our readers will remember that we lately published a letter, addressed by Hon. CHARLES SUMNER, to some friends in Boston, accompanying a daguerreotype which that gentleman had forwarded to his friends in this city, and which he described as the portrait of a real “Ida May,” — a young female slave, so white as to defy the acutest judge to detect in her features, complexion, hair, or general appearance, the slightest trace of Negro blood. It was this child that visited our office, accompanied by CHARLES H. BRAINARD, in whose care she was placed by Mr. SUMNER, for transmission to Boston. Her history is briefly as follows: Her name is MARY MILDRED BOTTS; her father escaped from the estate of Judge NEAL, Alexandria, six years ago and took refuge in Boston. Two years since he purchased his freedom for $600, his wife and three children being still in bondage. The good feeling of his Boston friends induced them to subscribe for the purchase of his family, and three weeks since, through the agency of Hon. CHARLES SUMNER, the purchase was effected, $800 being paid for the family. They created quite a sensation in Washington, and were provided with a passage in the first class cars in their journey to this city, whence they took their way last evening by the Fall River route to Boston. The child was exhibited yesterday to many prominent individuals in the City, and the general sentiment, in which we fully concur, was one of astonishment that she should ever have been held a slave. She was one of the fairest and most indisputable white children that we have ever seen.
Portrait of a New Orleans quadroon, by Belloqu
The Quadroon by Robert Gavin
Sandra Laing, born to white parents in apartheid South Africa, 1955. Both parents and her grandparents were classified as white, but she was reclassified as colored due to her appearance.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2003/mar/17/features11.g2
“Portrait of Maria Salviati de’ Medici and Giulia de’ Medici” (around 1539) shows a child of the Italian aristocracy with black facial features, an artwork that seems to confirm the intermingling of African and European blood.
Me on my 2nd or 3rd birthday, with my dad and sister
Twins born: one black, one white
See below for news video: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/twins-white-black-born-biracial-parents-stirs-issues/story?id=12984334#.UBK1RXAzJq0
Unidentified south Texas interracial couple, ca 1900