That Time I Clapped Back at Langston Hughes |
That Time I Clapped Back at Langston Hughes
Mixed Auntie Confidential
2023-03-05
TaRessa Stovall
Me at age 3
Even as a child, I balked at the stereotype of the Tragic Mulatto.
It didn’t make sense to me.
And I straight-up resented its implication: that my existence was tragic and my whole life worthless because I was “this close to” but not completely white.
Neither I nor any of the Mixed folks I grew up with seemed the least bit miserable about our ancestry or identities.
I was a young “bookworm”—today I’d be called an avid reader—regularly devouring the works of many fine poets and authors including Langston Hughes, who was one of my favorites…
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