Thank you for sharing. I can relate to a lot of what you've shared about the struggle to accept looking and being the way you are in the face of whiteness. I hated being black for years because of the labels of "dangerous" or "unprofessional" others assign to blackness. It wasn't until my late teens and early twenties that I began to like and love the way that God created me and felt a deeper sense of pride in my black cultural heritage as I took a DNA test and started to learn more about my ethnic makeup. I'm in an ongoing journey of learning more about my cultural history, and it's brought up lots of negative and positive emotions. It's quite a whirlwind of a journey!
What a topic. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. I am definitely going to read this book as I too, am hispanic and seek to know a bit more about a culture I have always felt detached from and never quite a part of. I feel this in general though. Not really identifying with any culture.
Thank you for sharing. I can relate to a lot of what you've shared about the struggle to accept looking and being the way you are in the face of whiteness. I hated being black for years because of the labels of "dangerous" or "unprofessional" others assign to blackness. It wasn't until my late teens and early twenties that I began to like and love the way that God created me and felt a deeper sense of pride in my black cultural heritage as I took a DNA test and started to learn more about my ethnic makeup. I'm in an ongoing journey of learning more about my cultural history, and it's brought up lots of negative and positive emotions. It's quite a whirlwind of a journey!
What a topic. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and experience. I am definitely going to read this book as I too, am hispanic and seek to know a bit more about a culture I have always felt detached from and never quite a part of. I feel this in general though. Not really identifying with any culture.