Essay On Mixed Race

Unpacking the identity of a mixed race individual and her role in society is rooted in context. Context is the socially constructed environment in which people exist. As a light-skin Black female, I am a victim to society’s scrutiny in the realm of identification. My great, great, great grandmother was a slave. She was raped. Now, White blood flows through my veins three generations later. In a socially constructed society where I am socialized by gender, I am also socialized by my race. I am dominated due to my gender and my race. Race is more closely related to gender than people may think. My race is mixed. What is that? Where do I fit in? How is race a product of gender? Drawing on multiple sources, I plan to explore how the social construction of the identity of a mixed raced female creates a particular type of silence contingent upon the dominant identities of gender and race. Gender is rooted in context based on

Moreover, individualism in this context refers to faulting the sole victim because she is supposed to be the sexual gate keeper to her own body. As the pressure to perform and conform to society’s rules about the female image, the stakes are higher. Childhood lessons of proper dress, passivity, and covert aggressiveness create a silence to be perpetuated in future situations. Young girls that are too scared to tell their teacher that they are getting bullied stand in solidarity the rape victims that will never report their assailant. Gossip perpetuates this idea of “you’re being talked about, because you did something terrible.” Being different because of race, religion, class, or sexuality is a means for judgement by society’s strict socially constructed boundaries. The dominant females follow the socially constructed rules. How can the other become dominant without conforming to the status