Whites created the borders, and their motivations for patrolling them are usually rooted in perpetuating white power. In contrast, blacks patrol borders as part of a “struggle for liberation”, a way of differentiating themselves and coming together.9 As Danzy Sezna says in her short essay, The Mulatto Millenium, “You told us all along we had to call ourselves black because of this so-called one drop. Now that we don’t have to anymore, we choose to. Because black is beautiful.”10 When Erica Childs interviewed black college women about their beliefs on interracial relationships, she found that they were unwilling to date whites because they were raised to be proud of their heritage as black women and whites “just don’t understand” what it is like to be
Whites created the borders, and their motivations for patrolling them are usually rooted in perpetuating white power. In contrast, blacks patrol borders as part of a “struggle for liberation”, a way of differentiating themselves and coming together.9 As Danzy Sezna says in her short essay, The Mulatto Millenium, “You told us all along we had to call ourselves black because of this so-called one drop. Now that we don’t have to anymore, we choose to. Because black is beautiful.”10 When Erica Childs interviewed black college women about their beliefs on interracial relationships, she found that they were unwilling to date whites because they were raised to be proud of their heritage as black women and whites “just don’t understand” what it is like to be