Angry Black-White Girl
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Author: Nia
Length: 20 pages
Format: 1/2 letter
Weight: 1 oz.
Price: 1.25
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Short Description:
Nia is through with messing around. She is tired of the gentle questions and ignorance surrounding her mixed race identity. So this is her standing up to all the awkward encounters with co-workers and folks who just don't fucking get it. This is her calling out racism on "liberal" white folks and dealing with her own identity struggle. I love her strength and ability to address people on their shit, but while still acknowledging that WE ALL gotta lot of work to do on our own.
Full Description:
"I learned that my dad's very light-skinned. Father never acknowledged his own Blackness until the Black power movement, when he was in his late 30s. He and his siblings passed as white when it was convenient or necessary, to get customers as a cabby and to avoid being put on the front lines in The Service.....And despite the negative effects all this whitewashing had on him, he married a white woman, had light-skinned babies, and raised then in a town where it would be impossible to develop a Black identity. I am the end product of generations of self-hating light-skinned Black folks trying to bleach themselves out of the gene pool."
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