In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future

In Living Colors A Black man with a White mother examines the concept of multiracial identity—past, present and future* *Originally published in the March 2011 issue of BLAC Detroit magazine. What are you? I have been asked this question for so long, some might think I should be over it. I’m not. Not because I…

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“The Most Visible Mulattoes”: Drake and Obama Match Hip-Hop and Politics

Lorraine Hansberry once cautioned against an artist seeking to ignore the specific nature of their racial categorization, history and experience.  Her point was that to dismiss that particularity with the narrow, anecdotal tale of one’s own success was to damage the potential to interpret the reality of a broader community.  To separate the conditions of Black people broadly…

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