My father was born in 1943 in Columbia, South Carolina. My mother was born in 1950 in Philadelphia. My mother was raised in Columbia. My father was raised in Philadelphia. My oldest uncle was born in 1937 in Georgia. My youngest uncle was born in 1959 in Columbia. My first cousins were all born before 1968.

My sister and I were born in the ( Read more... )

This is my first time doing a post for International Blogging against Racism Week, and Lord if these last weeks haven't given me more to talk about than normal!

When I was a sophomore in college I took a class called Race, Ethnicity, and Politics in the United States. The core question of the class was whether the racial/ethnic hierarchy was built ( Read more... )