{"id":40753,"date":"2015-04-05T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T23:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40753"},"modified":"2015-04-06T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T00:22:57","slug":"in-confessions-of-a-peppermint-pattie-a-whiteblack-girl-asks-if-shes-black-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40753","title":{"rendered":"In Confessions of a Peppermint Pattie, a \u2018Whiteblack\u2019 Girl Asks if She\u2019s Black Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/articles\/culture\/2015\/03\/confessions_of_a_whiteblack_peppermint_pattie_new_book_by_donna_davis.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>In <\/strong><\/em><strong>Confessions of a Peppermint Pattie<\/strong><em><strong>, a \u2018Whiteblack\u2019 Girl Asks if She\u2019s Black Enough<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Root<\/a><br \/>\n2015-03-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HopeWabuke\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Hope Wabuke<\/strong><\/a>, Media Director<br \/>\n<em>Kimbilio Center for African-American Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>From the way she speaks to the color of her skin, a former TV personality explores the ways in which she does and doesn\u2019t fit society\u2019s conceptions of blackness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> arrived on the national political stage and emerged as a presidential contender, more than one observer asked whether the young, biracial, Ivy League-educated U.S. senator was black enough to be the first African-American president. And this kind of authenticity challenge isn\u2019t new: Many other black Americans\u2014upwardly mobile and highly educated\u2014are sometimes seen as \u201cnot black enough.\u201d There\u2019s a sense that to be black, one must fit into a narrow box of stereotypes rather than embrace the many-faceted experiences and identities of black people.<\/p>\n<p>So what does it mean to be black\u2014and to be black enough?<\/p>\n<p>These, ostensibly, are the questions that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phoenixgirlentertainment.com\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">former TV host and news anchor Donna Davis<\/a> poses in her debut nonfiction book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B00PGBGZ0W\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Confessions of a Peppermint Pattie: Why I Really Am Black Enough Already, Y\u2019All<\/em><\/a>. This journey begins when Davis\u2019 14-year-old son tells her that she is \u201cnot a real black person\u201d but \u201cso white until you\u2019re not even an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Oreo\" target=\"_blank\">Oreo<\/a> anymore.\u201d He calls her a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/York_Peppermint_Pattie\" target=\"_blank\">York Peppermint Pattie<\/a>.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/articles\/culture\/2015\/03\/confessions_of_a_whiteblack_peppermint_pattie_new_book_by_donna_davis.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Confessions of a Peppermint Pattie, a \u2018Whiteblack\u2019 Girl Asks if She\u2019s Black Enough The Root 2015-03-24 Hope Wabuke, Media Director Kimbilio Center for African-American Fiction From the way she speaks to the color of her skin, a former TV personality explores the ways in which she does and doesn\u2019t fit society\u2019s conceptions of blackness. 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