{"id":34265,"date":"2013-10-12T03:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T03:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34265"},"modified":"2013-10-12T03:00:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T03:00:03","slug":"racial-identity-and-the-shadow-of-jim-crow-in-the-black-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34265","title":{"rendered":"Racial Identity and the Shadow of Jim Crow in the Black Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/racial-identity-and-the-shadow-of-jim-crow-in-the-black-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Identity and the Shadow of Jim Crow in the Black Community<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\" target=\"_blank\">(<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">1<\/span>)ne Drop Project<\/a><br \/>\n2013-10-07<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kimberlybernitaross.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kimberly Bernita Ross<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Michigan State University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My grandmother Bernice was born in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Orleans\" target=\"_blank\">New Orleans<\/a> in 1918 to a Black mother and a White father at a time when interracial marriage was illegal. Her mother, Roseanna, a maid in a White home, had a relationship with her employer\u2019s son. Grandma Bernice was born with blue eyes, straight hair, and white skin, and was raised by a brown-skinned mother in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=4781\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Crow<\/a> south. Her life was marred with instances of social confusion, isolation and abuse from others because society was not prepared to handle racial ambiguity. To say however, that Grandma Bernice was merely the iconic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=454\" target=\"_blank\">tragic mulatto<\/a>, as depicted in 19th century American literature, like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nella_Larsen\" target=\"_blank\">Nella Larsen\u2019s<\/a> novels, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25539\" target=\"_blank\">Quicksand<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=2508\" target=\"_blank\">Passing<\/a><\/em>, would simplify her experience and bypass an opportunity to analyze racial identity. These depictions, at times, reduce struggles with racial identity to individual human drama, divorcing this inner conflict, from the racist society that created it. Today, at a time when some people seem to have race fatigue, the truth is, as we continue to become a more cosmopolitan world, it would be to our collective advantage to become more race savvy, beginning by looking at the past. My grandmother\u2019s story reveals the impact of state imposed identity and how in the Black community, racism and Jim Crow still overshadow our relationships and perceptions of racial identity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire essay <a href=\"http:\/\/1nedrop.com\/racial-identity-and-the-shadow-of-jim-crow-in-the-black-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Identity and the Shadow of Jim Crow in the Black Community (1)ne Drop Project 2013-10-07 Kimberly Bernita Ross Michigan State University My grandmother Bernice was born in New Orleans in 1918 to a Black mother and a White father at a time when interracial marriage was illegal. Her mother, Roseanna, a maid in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,8,6462,20],"tags":[9247,16099],"class_list":["post-34265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-1ne-drop-project","tag-kimberly-bernita-ross"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}