{"id":50541,"date":"2016-12-11T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-11T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50541"},"modified":"2017-03-03T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T16:38:12","slug":"more-than-a-house-slave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50541","title":{"rendered":"More than a house\u00a0slave"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than a house\u00a0slave<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Medium<\/a>
\n2016-11-20<\/p>\n

Gabrielle Pilgrim<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s my black girl who looks like a white girl with a tan and a bad hair\u00a0day.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I saw Birth of a Nation<\/em><\/a> and I liked it, as much as one can like a movie that gruesomely shows her ancestors being tortured, raped, beaten, broken, and lynched. Today, I am not analyzing the film. I thought it was cinematically great: I left mad, but inspired. I was particularly drawn to the house slave<\/a> Isaiah (played by Roger Guenveur Smith<\/a>) as I am regularly fascinated with multiracial, racially ambiguous, and lightskin black folks.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if nonblack people are aware of the \u201cblack enough\u201d vs \u201cnot black enough\u201d spectrum, but it is real\u200a\u2014\u200aso real. Colorism<\/a> is real. The fulfillment or lack of fulfillment of stereotypes is real. Middle to upper-middle class black folks may experience feeling like \u201cnot enough.\u201d Childish Gambino<\/a> voices his struggles with justifying his blackness: \u201cCulture shock at barber shops cause I ain\u2019t hood enough \/ We all look the same to the cops, ain\u2019t that good enough?\u201d Biracial\/multiracial black folks may experience feeling like they are \u201cnot enough:\u201d…<\/p>\n

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

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