{"id":23956,"date":"2012-06-25T16:36:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23956"},"modified":"2013-08-25T00:33:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T00:33:41","slug":"the-greek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23956","title":{"rendered":"the greek"},"content":{"rendered":"

the greek<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Story Week Reader<\/a>
\nStory Week Reader 2011<\/a>
\npages 31-32<\/p>\n

Chris “C.T.” Terry<\/a><\/strong>, Writer, Editor, Educator<\/p>\n

I was nervous on my first day working in the African-American Cultural Affairs section of my school\u2019s Multicultural Office. My boss Kim introduced me to coworkers, and I imagined my blue eyes to be the subject of appraising gazes. I shook hands\u2014no daps<\/a>\u2014and wondered if the brief, polite greetings I received were typical professional interactions, or if each person was thinking, \u201cThe nerve of this white boy, disturbing the sanctity of African-American Cultural Affairs!\u201d<\/p>\n

My mother is white, Irish-American. My father is black. I\u2019m pale, with freckles. Usually, black people can tell that I\u2019m mixed, and white people go, \u201cOh, I thought you were white, but, like, with an Afro.\u201d<\/p>\n

After growing up in a white area outside of white Boston, and having so many people mistake me for white, I get self-conscious around black people. If they don\u2019t recognize my blackness, does it exist? At a party, I\u2019ll screw up an elaborate handshake, clasping when I should be bumping, and one of the other black guys there looks away in shame. Then I die inside a little bit and vow to delete all Hank Williams<\/a> from my iPod…<\/p>\n

Read the entire essay here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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