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Am I Black or White? A Lifelong Quest to Define Myself in the Binary of Race
Burgos, Aliandra
Burgos, Aliandra
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In this paper, I utilize the Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) form to explore the relationship between race as a binary and anti-Blackness. I intend to specifically share my narrative with experiences of race and highlight the emerging themes that are prevalent such as whiteness as property, anti-Blackness in the Latinx community, and the Black and white binary of race. The ways in which I define my racial identity are constantly shifting throughout my higher education journey. I have received mixed messages about what it means to identify as Black or white, but these messages have never fully defined my racial identity. In this paper, I interrogate my identities and experiences while utilizing critical race theory (CRT) as a framework- and the tenets of CRT to make meaning of the themes that emerge from my narrative.
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2021-01-01