Different Shades of Belonging
Explores colorism, class, and internalized hierarchy. This chapter unpacks how even within communities of color, privilege and pain are often distributed unevenly—and how healing requires naming those dynamics, not denying them.
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🧭 Side Quest: Historical accounts of actresses who passed: https://youtu.be/wxRJIlrTO34?si=WRv7z-I4YXCJPU5W
○ A Chosen Exile book
○ Film PASSING with the lady who played Valkyrie in Marvel’s Thor Ragnarok
🧭 Side Quest with Laz Alonzo: https://www.instagram.com/share/BAGr3BdfSn
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Song to listen to for reflection: https://youtu.be/EWWqx_Keo1U?si=Hb0fTtENLgQJUinc
Nine-minute video of a family navigating different skin tones in the family: https://youtu.be/S4tI4nC36es?si=o3kQIpNC8R019-Ux
Book resource: Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias And The Struggle For Equality by Tanya Katerí Hernandez
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Listen to the poem entitled: “Afro-Latina” by Elizabeth Acevedo https://www.instagram.com/share/BAQ0xcmLPB
Brown Enough by Christopher Rivas
🧭 Side Quest: https://www.academia.edu/45409593/Seeing_with_my_feet
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● https://youtu.be/WZsY1kYHT8A?si=620CuHYmt0JhHvq5 YouTube video for deeper dive.
● A study on complexion and intra-racial discrimination in the workplace : https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJHRDM.2010.033585
● A resource/experience for mixed bodies to consider: Belonging Ambiguity Project (rootedglobalvillage.com)