Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial MarriagePosted in Articles, Canada, Media Archive, United States on 2016-05-04 17:52Z by Steven |
Coloring Outside The Lines With Interracial Marriage
The Stony Brook Independent
Stony Brook, New York
2016-05-02
Kayla Frazier, Staff Writer
For Stony Brook student Shage Price, being the daughter of parents of different races led her to have questions about her looks early on.
“I would always ask my mother why she married daddy and not someone with better hair so my hair would be nice,” Price said.
Price, 21, grew up in Middletown, New York, a predominantly white town on the edge of the Catskill Mountains. Though she had plenty of friends and experienced little or no harassment because of her multiracial background, she said she felt “too black to be white and too white to be black.”
At college, that racial ambivalence has become more of a cultural question. Back home, she said, her high school friends see her as “too artsy to be hood” while on campus, where she is switching her major from linguistics to a multidisciplinary blend including theater and music. She sometimes feels “too hood to be artsy.”
It is no secret that America has continuous lingering issues dealing with race. As millennials come of age, coloring outside the lines, so to speak, is a path waiting to be explored…
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