The New Multiracial America
September 16, 2021
People who once hid their mixed-race identity or felt pressured to choose one identity or the other, now feel free to embrace the totality of their identity.
People who once hid their mixed-race identity or felt pressured to choose one identity or the other, now feel free to embrace the totality of their identity.
Author Adolph Reed’s book, The Jug and its Contents: A Perspective on Black Political Development raises controversial but provocative questions about Black leadership and the devolving state of the “Black community.” His basic argument is the idea that there is a cohesive Black collectivity or identity is a myth. He attempts to show why this myth was necessary after the Civil War in order to present a semblance of unity.