”Even claiming a mixed-race identity requires enough skin privilege to compel the (unscrupulous) gazer to ask, “What are you?

#thatawesomemomentwhen people reblog something you wrote! *cabbage patches*

Canon Fodder: ‘The Girl Who Fell From the Sky’ and the Problem of Mixed-Race Identity (via jeromeiznice)

Exactly. When you look Black, you don’t even get the option to define yourself. No matter where (or who) you and your family come from, you are always ‘just Black.’

(via liquornspice)