Aggies blog about the cultural representation of Black women and the literature they produce. We center the lived experience of the Black woman as represented in literature and the terms and conditions on which she projects her own agency amidst society’s denial of it. We aim to use this place as a site of valuable information, and a space to challenge traditional paradigms about the Black woman’s identity and experience.
Friday, March 14, 2014
"Black Ice"
I have experienced situations before in which I would consider myself treading on "black ice". Once as a middle schooler at a predominantly white middle school a white classmate referred to another black student that was not present as a "nigger". He looked at me and I said "I don't care" because I felt like that was more socially acceptable to say. Sometimes as a mixed race individual the pressure to fit in with one group becomes so great that you make decisions that you look back on in disgust.
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Your situation is fairly similar to Ms. Mitchell's. What is more intriguing to me is that you feel you were aware at a young age. In most cases, you don't find even a middle school aged student who acknowledges feeling the way you did.
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