As a person of Spanish/African/Caribe & Iroquis Indian desent who hails from Puerto Rico can say first hand that people are connected more by culture than racial desent. If she identifies with her african roots then whites are less likely to accecpt her. If she does not identify with her african roots then she is denying her heritage and blacks look at her negativly. What is even more disturbing is that a negative connatation is always connected if african desent is part of the multi-ethnic equation. The American society has a deeply embeded desire to classify all peoples in the terms of black and white. The bottom line is that she is MULTI-racial.
On Thu Jul 2nd 2009 at 02:21:29 Geenie NaBottleĭoes it really matter what “race” she is. My sister looks to her husbands aunties to help rebecca with her black american culture – unless its the black folks art displays and such that my sister and I take her too.Īnd to Le Reynas point – most people dont know that Linda Carter (wonder women) and Catherine Bach (Daisy Duke) where of mixed race…latin and caucasin…but still their mixed heritage was downplayed and i bet most people think they were white. But when my sister took her too a black hair salon for assistance (my sisters and my hair is very straight and oily where as beccas here was getting dried out and frizzing up) the message given to my sister was she wasnt black enough. 25 other) who for some people, that little bit of black makes up her whole idenity. You bring this down to my niece (who is like Mariah Carey (.25 black. My coworker (who is “black”) says my bro-in-law is not black – because he is not 100%. If my brother-in-law is asked – he says he is black…even though his mother is latin. I never understood why its one or the other if your part black…why cant you be proud of all your heritage. But if asked i would say I am an american of scottish, german and american indian decent. I am not black – so I am only an outside observer. Rosario Dawson – half Afro-Latino and half white.She has called herself a person of mixed race, a person of colour, but as far as I know she did not straight-out say she was black till 2009 in an interview with The Guardian: “I’m a black woman who is very light skinned.” Her hair is lighter and straighter and her nose is much more pointed and narrow than before. But in the early years producers made sure her music was whiter.īut strangely, while her music has become blacker and she is now widely regarded as black, her looks have become whiter. The music she wanted to do – and later did do – was more R&B and hip hop. It was not just the way she looked, it was her music too. Few whites would have bought it and Columbia would have made far less money.
If Mariah Carey had first been seen as black then there was a good chance that “Visions of Love”, an R&B song, would have only been played on black radio stations. Given all the money Columbia had put into pushing Carey it was probably no accident. Others said she was a white Whitney Houston. Nelson George called her “a white girl who can sing”.
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Lisa Jones of the Village Voice said she comes across “quite clearly, as a rainbow baby of African descent, skin toasted almond and hair light brown.” But she is close enough to white that with the right lighting she can be made to look white.Īnd when she came out she did seem white. Her recording company, Columbia Records, however, was not so forthright. Soon after her second song hit number one in late 1990, she told the press, “My father is black and Venezuelan.
So far as I know she has never hid her background from the press. She would have been Mariah Nuñez if her father’s father had not changed his name. What I find racist and unfair is that if someone’s half Chinese and half Italian, that’s two different races, why are they not forced to constantly define what they are? When it comes to a Black and a White thing, people are up in arms. She sees this sort of questioning as racist: I see myself as a person of color who happens to be mixed with a lot of things… No matter what you say, when someone asks you the question ‘What are you?’ and you say ‘Black’ and you look mixed, they’re going to ask what you’re mixed with. Here is what Carey told JET magazine in 1999:Įthnically, I’m a person of mixed race. In 2006 Sandra Bernhard said that Carey is only black when it helps her to sell music. But through it all she has been dogged by questions about her race. Mariah Carey has been one of the best-selling singers in America ever since her very first song, “Visions of Love”, in 1990.
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