{"id":45585,"date":"2016-02-10T02:18:25","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45585"},"modified":"2016-02-10T02:18:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-10T02:18:25","slug":"meet-the-new-student-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45585","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Student Activists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet the New Student Activists<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-02-01<\/p>\n

As told to Abby Ellin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Young African-Americans and their allies are demanding change, leading people of all backgrounds to talk about issues that have lain dormant for decades. What do they want? Inclusion and representation \u2014 now. Here, seven students talk about the problems, the protests and themselves.<\/p>\n

AMANDA BENNETT<\/strong> University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa<\/em><\/p>\n

Bio<\/strong>: Senior, English\/African-American studies; co-organizer of We Are Done movement; producer and co-author of \u201cHow Does It Feel to Be a Problem\u201d video<\/p>\n

My Story<\/strong>: I am totally African-American. My grandfather was a sharecropper in rural Alabama who moved to Atlanta and became a mechanic and worker at General Motors, so I grew up in Atlanta around middle-class black people. To come to Alabama and see this kind of segregation was horrifying to me. A lot of people who were impoverished 50 years ago, around the time of Selma, are still impoverished… .Nothing has changed structurally…<\/p>\n

…NAILAH HARPER-MALVEAUX<\/strong>, Yale University<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\n \u201cBlack women are at the bottom of the totem pole. When you free women of color, you free everyone.\u201d \u2014 Nailah Harper-Malveaux Credit Fred R. Conrad for The New York Times<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Bio<\/strong>: Senior, American studies\/theater studies; director of theatrical productions that tell the stories of African-Americans<\/p>\n

My Story<\/strong>: I\u2019ve been surrounded by social justice and law my whole life. My mom is a civil rights lawyer turned law professor at Catholic University, while my dad is U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Human Rights Council. My dad is Cherokee and Macanese, from Macau, and my mom is Creole, a mixture of Spanish and black descent. I don\u2019t look white but I don\u2019t look black, either. I identify as Indian and black. Because I\u2019m mixed I have been very conscious of race my whole life, which is probably why I\u2019ve participated in so many political events at Yale, including the midnight march to walk the demands to the president\u2019s house. It was very empowering…<\/p>\n

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