Featuring the perspectives of 60 contributors representing 25 countries and combining candid narratives with striking portraiture, this book provides living testimony to the diversity of Blackness.
Larry Jaffe: lgjaffe says he was born on a mountaintop in the South Bronx (despite statements to the contrary and that there are no mountains in the Bronx), in the shadow of Yankee Stadium. From the time he could walk he either was ...
Rather than being defined by the one - drop rule , Creoles were defined by the exact amount of Black ancestry they possessed . ... A Quadroon and a White produced an Octoroon or Sang - mĂȘlĂ© , and so on and so on .
Hispanics, on the other hand, were generally classified as white unless their appearance was too black for the enumerator to ignore. For my father's friends in Bed-Stuy, his decision to marry Aida marked the beginning of his living as a ...
... us due east across the same field and kept us going, telling us not to turn round. Soon we were among tree trunks ... Mum. She'd rejoined us, minus the canvas bag. 'Nothing. The usual. Some randoms threw a punch at me. I hit them back ...