{"id":51748,"date":"2017-02-20T02:07:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T02:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=51748"},"modified":"2017-02-20T02:08:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-20T02:08:12","slug":"why-are-some-black-africans-considered-white-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=51748","title":{"rendered":"Why are some black Africans considered white Americans?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why are some black Africans considered white Americans?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Al Jazeera<\/a>
\n2017-02-16<\/p>\n

Hind Makki<\/strong><\/a>, second-generation Sudanese American who works as an interfaith and anti-racism educator<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nSudanese Americans, like all African American and Black Muslims in the US, suffer from invisible intersectionality<\/a>, writes Makki [Stephanie Keith\/Reuters]<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Sudanese Americans do not fit neatly into the existing racial classifications of the American society.<\/em><\/p>\n

I always knew I was black. My childhood was the scent of coconut oil hair cream and the taste of bean pie after Friday prayers in a Bilalian mosque<\/a> on Chicago’s south side<\/a>. I knew the words to Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika<\/a> and called Harold Washington<\/a> my mayor, even though I lived in the suburbs.<\/p>\n

My parents had immigrated to the United States<\/a> from Sudan<\/a> in the late 1970s and raised my sister and me to be comfortable in our skin. I spoke Arabic at home and English at school where it seemed no one else agreed that I am black…<\/p>\n

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

I always knew I was black. My childhood was the scent of coconut oil hair cream and the taste of bean pie after Friday prayers in a Bilalian mosque on Chicago’s south side. I knew the words to “Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika” and called Harold Washington my mayor, even though I lived in the suburbs…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1295,12,33,8,820,394,20],"tags":[26243,26244],"class_list":["post-51748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-hind-makki","tag-sudanese-americans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748","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=51748"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51750,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51748\/revisions\/51750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}