MIXED IN AMERICA TAKEOVER
August 26, 2020
Who is Mixed in America? Get to know this influential organization (and its founders) with a Q&A interview. You’ll see why it’s so important to join with and listen to other marginalized groups of color. Then we can begin the work of healing the mixed narrative.
By Jazmine Jarvis and Meagan Kimberly Smith
Mixed in America authors Jazmine Jarvis and Meagan Kimberly Smith briefly explore the unique challenges mixed-race people often experience, and name some of the ways in which it differs from the experiences of monoracial BIPOC. Without “comparing struggles,” they pose the question: What community does a mixed person have?
By Jazmine Jarvis
You ask me to “prove it”.
Prove my blackness.
Prove my gayness.
Prove my whiteness.
Prove my straightness.
As if I’m a walking question mark.
By Maya Richardson
Listen. Check your privilege. Set boundaries when talking about race. Love BIG. This is “Relationship Tips: Interracial Edition,” and these are just a few of the 22 tips Maya Richardson delivers as a part of the Mixed in America takeover.
By Meagan Kimberly Smith
When is a kiss more than just a kiss? Years after an innocent encounter in high school, author Meagan Kimberly Smith of Mixed in America explores the deeper meaning of the experience, what it might have meant for both of them, and the complex feelings that have lingered well beyond sophomore year.
By Jazmine Jarvis
Black girls gotta stick together, right? Well, that’s only if they count you as Black… Mixed in America’s Jazmine Jarvis discusses experiencing prejudice from a fellow person of color for the first time. Although it was confusing, sometimes adversity can be our teacher.
By Maya Richardson
Writing for Mixed in America, author Maya Richardson discusses the origins of the complex relationship between class and skin color. In media, ads, and throughout society, colorism leaves its mark as an indicator of status and acceptance— in America and beyond.
By Xavier Jarvis
Xavier recounts three specific dates that speak to the mixed man’s dating experience, as a part of the Mixed in America takeover. “Hold up. Did she just use the N-word??” Check out some of these deal breakers.
By Meagan Kimberly Smith
Last night I met a Painter,
Please, Paint me. I said
I can't. He responded,
I don't have your color.
By Meagan Kimberly Smith
Colorism is a mean son of gun, whose only interest is penetrating people of color with its perpetuation of white supremacy. It attacks dark skin people in obvious and outrageous ways, but it does negatively affect all people of color. Mixed in America’s Meagan Kimberly Smith offers the question: is there room for both struggles?