{"id":53670,"date":"2017-04-24T03:08:32","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T03:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53670"},"modified":"2017-04-24T03:14:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T03:14:19","slug":"stealth-sisterhood-i-look-white-but-im-also-black-and-i-dont-hate-rachel-dolezal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53670","title":{"rendered":"Stealth sisterhood: I look white, but I\u2019m also black. And I don\u2019t hate Rachel Dolezal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stealth sisterhood: I look white, but I\u2019m also black. And I don\u2019t hate Rachel Dolezal<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Salon<\/a>
\n2017-04-23<\/p>\n

Alli Joseph<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nA photo of the author with her mother.<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

I am white, I am black, I am Native American. And I know what it’s like for people not to see all of who I am<\/em><\/p>\n

On a hot, humid New York City<\/a> morning in 1980, I stood with my mother in the checkout line of an A&P supermarket near our home. As she pushed our groceries along the cashier\u2019s belt with me trailing behind, mom realized she had forgotten her wallet at home, but she had her checkbook. Leaving me standing alone in the line for a moment while she saw the manager to have her check approved, the clerk refused to bag our groceries and hand them to me. She was black, and I was white. \u201cThese groceries belong to that woman over there,\u201d the woman nodded towards my mother. \u201cThey ain\u2019t yours.\u201d Confused, I said, \u201cBut that\u2019s my mother. I\u2019ll take them for her.\u201d She looked me up and down. \u201cNo,\u201d she said, her voice cold.<\/p>\n

The clerk refused to believe that indeed I belonged to, and came from, my black mother, until mom returned to find me choking back tears. She gave the clerk a tongue lashing, which was not her style, and we left the market. Later, mixed Native American and black children threw stones at me near my home on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation<\/a> as I rode my bike. They yelled, \u201cGet off our land, white girl!\u201d These painful and strange experiences gave me my first taste of racial prejudice, and they have stayed with me all these years.<\/p>\n

I am a child of many nations. I am white, I am black, I am Native American. I am West Indian, German, Irish. Brown and light together \u2014 integrated, not inter-racial, because race means nothing when you come from everywhere…<\/p>\n

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Stealth sisterhood: I look white, but I\u2019m also black. And I don\u2019t hate Rachel Dolezal Salon 2017-04-23 Alli Joseph A photo of the author with her mother. I am white, I am black, I am Native American. And I know what it’s like for people not to see all of who I am On a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,125,8,6462,20],"tags":[26888,20241,10962],"class_list":["post-53670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-alli-joseph","tag-rachel-dolezal","tag-salon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53670","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=53670"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53676,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53670\/revisions\/53676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}