The people in me
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A Black American whose father is an African American and whose mother is a US-raised white Jamaican ponders on the different perceptions of people about her and her siblings. She believes that to acknowledge one's poly-cultural heritage does not mean surrendering one's Black identity.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1999
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Dreadlocked
Article Abstract:
An African American lady considers her preoccupation with her hair. She notes that this complicated relationship with her hair stems from the notion of politics and aesthetics within the context of stereotyped perceptions of race and class in the late 20th century.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1999
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The color of love: feeling my way along the fault line between black and white
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A white man raised in St Louis describes his relationship with his family's black maid and her son. He knows that he can never really experience their lives, but he believes that he has made an attempt.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1997
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