How Can Black People Receive Racial Identity?
Accordingly, people inherit racial identity (Black person), ethnic identity (African), and social class (lower) from their immediate family. Once Rankine writes “[h]aven’t you said this to a close friend who early in your friendship, when distracted, would call you by the name of her black housekeeper” (p. 7). She suggests others perceive African Americans as a black person and treat them poorly because of their lower society class. Again, McBride shares “[a]nd he’s a rapper, with a mouthful of gold teeth, a do-rag on his head, muscles popping out his arms, and a thug attitude. His point is to emphasize on how public being judgmental upon African Americans’ culture and physical appearance; they associate black person as the negative image and