Mixed-race people articulate a counter-language against imposed racial negation

Evidence

This discussion of the borderlands and mixed race ties the ontological concerns of border cultures to blacks on the peripheries confronting issues of dispossession, exile, racialization, and marginalization. First, we examine responses to disparaging locations of ethnoracial subjects and how “problematic” peoples - through “mixed race” - counter the negation of their humanity by articulating a “different” language and by bearing the weight of the English alphabet in ways that mark, reverbalize, and theorize a “colored” experience. I start with James Weldon Johnson’s (1995) The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man to punctuate a childhood consciousness demanding explanations to W. E. B. Du Bois’s prognosis of being a problem. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2471

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Du Bois’s ‘being a problem’ formulation and the reader’s existing notes on double consciousness. — connects to: Racialized people can practice a vernacular anti-race-ism refusing racist categories — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 62; Marginalized people reclaim themselves in language by turning the oppressor’s tongue against itself — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 349; Total language refusal can function as a critique of a whole social order — Édouard Glissant, Poetics of Relation, 627 (+1 more)