Who Gives--and Gets--'Permission' to be Mixed?
Y’all!
Among the many nonstop convos swirling around Mixed-race people and identity is the whole question of who grants — and who receives — PERMISSION to be Mixed.
This dynamic takes many forms. One of which is when a person with 3 Black grandparents and 1 not-Black grandparent is inquiring whether they “get” to claim Mixed identity.
As with so many aspects of Mixedness in the USA these days, there is no cut-and-dried one-dimensional answer to such a question.
It’s complex.
Because WE and every aspect of our existence and beings are inherently complicated, right?
So, who “gets” to be Mixed?
Who “has” to be Mixed?
And who doesn’t have the right or permission to claim that identity?
Sir Auntie Mane and I dive into these perilous waters and splash around…please join us and let us know what YOU think!