{"id":38089,"date":"2014-11-05T21:28:12","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T21:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=38089"},"modified":"2014-11-05T23:24:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T23:24:29","slug":"dear-white-people-or-dear-bougie-black-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=38089","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Dear White People\u2019 or \u2018Dear Bougie Black People\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Dear White People\u2019 or \u2018Dear Bougie Black People\u2019?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Boston Globe<\/a>
\n2014-11-04<\/p>\n

Farah Stockman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

THIS WEEKEND, I saw the new satirical film \u201cDear White People<\/a>.\u201d I was curious what it would tell me about how young people view race today.<\/p>\n

Each generation plays out the drama of race in the movies. Baby boomers<\/a> flocked to\u201cGuess Who\u2019s Coming to Dinner<\/a>,\u201d which raised the question: Could a well-educated black man ever be good enough for a white family\u2019s daughter? The jury was still out in 1967, the year my mom, who is black, saw that movie several times. Two years later, she married my dad, who is white.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then came my generation. Born in the \u201970s, we grew up glued to depictions of black slavery and impoverishment, with the television miniseries \u201cRoots<\/a>\u201d and the sitcom \u201cGood Times<\/a>.\u201d We came of age with Spike Lee\u2019s<\/a> \u201cJungle Fever<\/a>,\u201d released in 1991, which asked the question: Will the gulf between black and white ever be bridged? Lee\u2019s answer seemed to be: Don\u2019t hold your breath. In 1992, I left my predominantly white high school for a predominantly white Ivy League<\/a> college.<\/p>\n

Now we have the millennial generation<\/a>, the most ethnically diverse, socially liberal cohort America has ever seen; kids who never wondered whether America could elect a black president. About 90 percent report being \u201cfine\u201d with a family member marrying outside the race. Yet, for much of this generation, the civil rights movement is ancient history, and systemic black poverty and incarceration take place on a separate planet. Millennials feel deeply ambivalent about acknowledging race, even for the purpose of righting wrongs: According to one poll, 70 percent feel it\u2019s \u201cnever fair to give preferential treatment to one race over another, regardless of historical inequalities.\u201d Nearly half of white young people today believe that discrimination against whites has become \u201cas big a problem as discrimination against racial minority groups.\u201d By comparison, only 27 percent of people of color share that belief…<\/p>\n

…W.\u200aE.\u200aB. Du Bois<\/a> famously defined a black man as anybody \u201cwho must ride \u2018Jim Crow<\/a>\u2019 in Georgia<\/a>,\u2019\u200a\u201d writes Stanford historian Allyson Hobbs<\/a> in her new book, \u201cA Chosen Exile<\/a>.\u201d That \u201craises the question, What would a black man be without Jim Crow in Georgia?\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

\u2018Dear White People\u2019 or \u2018Dear Bougie Black People\u2019? The Boston Globe 2014-11-04 Farah Stockman THIS WEEKEND, I saw the new satirical film \u201cDear White People.\u201d I was curious what it would tell me about how young people view race today. Each generation plays out the drama of race in the movies. Baby boomers flocked to\u201cGuess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20],"tags":[9812,4072,18351,5579,18347],"class_list":["post-38089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-allyson-hobbs","tag-boston-globe","tag-farah-stockman","tag-the-boston-globe","tag-dear-white-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38089","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=38089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}