Tuesday, February 27, 2018
White passing
On a more general note, how does passing as a white person influence the way that you are perceived by white society, but also how you navigate spaces within the black community? There are obviously privileges to being white passing, but I think the experience of white passing black folks is a lot more nuanced than we sometimes like to admit in the black community. They definitely do have the privilege of being able to pass as a white person in predominantly white spaces, but there is a stress and trauma that comes with that experience. Self-identifying as black while simultaneously being perceived as something else can be extremely exhausting. It is hard when other people place identities on you, especially when you know for a fact what you are.
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