#racial-identity

#racial-identity

The sculpture, "Untitled" (2022), by the late artist Radcliffe Bailey, is a striking visual metaphor for W.E.B. Du Bois's doctrine of double consciousness, the social historian's conceptualization of African Americans' racial positioning post-emancipation. In their orientation, the twin busts suggest the crisis of identity experienced under the duress of racism; the subjects' autonomous self-fashioning is at odds with their marginalized civic position.

Others said they were offended. But the restaurant, whose name is a mashup of white and Mexicans, is real, and opened earlier this month on Northern Boulevard in the heart of Jackson Heights. Cristina Furlong, a longtime neighborhood resident and member of Community Board 3, wished the restaurant well on Facebook but urged the owners to change the name, given heightened immigration enforcement and "people self-deporting."

"I hated being different, speaking differently, and having customs and traditions that differed from those of mainstream America. In Hong Kong, we were part of the Chinese majority. But this all changed when my parents decided to move the family to America when I was a toddler."

Adrian Piper's 64th birthday marked her declaration of a new racial identity, stating her designation as "6.25% grey", challenging the limited racial categories imposed by society.

After about an hour, I'd stand to leave. Her smile would evaporate. Another awkward hug. As I left, she'd call out, "Don't take any wooden nickels."

No one wields dead black people more enthusiastically than a progressive ideologue bent on clotting common-sense political discussions.

It's clear that the Pope has centuries-long ties to free people of color in Louisiana, emphasizing the ancestry of Robert Francis Prevost.

"Trump, at a federal level, yeah he could say what he wants, but at the same time at a state level or even at a local, city level, he [doesn't] really have full jurisdiction."