![]() ![]() ![]() As I grew older, I kept trying to bridge the gap between my two black identities, African and African-American. At the time, I couldn’t understand why they taunted and isolated me from my 5-year-old perspective we were all black and it was that blackness that drew us together, despite our various ethnic backgrounds. Every day I was confronted with harsh name-calling by black boys and girls of the same age, at school and in our neighborhood, because of my black African identity. When my mother and I arrived in 1999, we settled in a predominantly African-American community in North Minneapolis. –Darnell Hunt īorn in Cameroon and then emigrating to the United States at the age of five, I’ve grown up confused about my African-American identity. culture, one dependent upon an institutionalized complex of prototypical signifiers: the African’s dark skin his coarse and curly hair her earthy and unrestrained culture his brute physicality. Blackness has always played a fundamental role in U.S. ![]()
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