Word: whats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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"This is information for the government to do its business," he says. "What business that the government does requires it to have data on mixed-race people?"
"I think that they were shocked...that my sister and I were going through problems," she says, adding that comments like "What are you?" were common.
"The question arises when other people come into the situation," he says. "My identity is not what other people see, I guess."
"No matter what percentage you are black, you're always looked at as black," says Stephanie N. Ajudua '00, whose father is Nigerian and whose mother if Ukranian. She says she feels society wants her to deny or suppress her mother's side of her identity.
I hate to do this to you, but... Imagine your parents having sex. Worse yet, your grandparents. I know, it's awful, one of those things that couldn't have been--but we all know it happened. The idea crashes through the barrier of your typical illusions of parents/grandparents--sterile virgins...