In America, mixed-race identity tends to invite both curiosity and suspicion, largely because few have found a way to interrogate it without centering whiteness as the scale by which to evaluate blackness.
Interpretation
The quote discusses the complexities of mixed-race identity in America, highlighting societal biases that assess blackness against a white standard.
Jenna Wortham's quote reflects on the societal challenges faced by individuals of mixed-race identity in America, noting that their existence often elicits both curiosity and suspicion. This reaction stems from a historical and cultural framework where whiteness is used as the central point of reference for evaluating blackness, leading to a skewed understanding of racial identity that neglects the nuances of multi-ethnic experiences.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about racial identity in a diversity training seminar.
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To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.
Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.
There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.
The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
If there is a knower of tongues here, fetch him; There's a stranger in the city And he has many things to say.
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