I suppose my nephews and niece (whose mother, South Asian dad) have this advantage to white…

My experiences in Liverpool taught me that my half-whiteness did not represent a get-out-of-jail-card from racism. While I did get some “white privilege” from my mother, it was always by proxy, contingent on her physical presence beside me, as well as her active interventions. For example, eventually, my mother was able to arrange for my sister and I to get a ride from our home in Birkenhead to our school in Liverpool. Another parent was kind enough to let us join her and her daughter in their morning commute; however, I’m doubtful that she would have done this for us if my mother had not been white and well-educated.
As a Black Biracial child, I struggled with racial bullying when my family relocated to Liverpool…
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Aza Y. Alam
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I suppose my nephews and niece (whose mother, South Asian dad) have this advantage to white proximity.
They look askance at me when I talk about racism as thy belevie (along with their white grandparents) tht thing shav moved on and racism has more or less disappeared except for a few rightwing freaks.
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Exploring the entanglements of gender, race and class during this era of the Eurokleptocene. Let’s do better, one story, one learning, one comment at a time.
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