Bi-Racial: Identity Crisis

"Bi-Racial: Identity Crisis" is a representation of the inter-racial struggles faced being of mixed ethnicity. I grew up in a pre-dominantly white community. My father was one of the only African American men in the small town I grew up in. We faced discrimination and racially charged views from the close-minded people in our area. However, on the other side in the African American community, I was considered "light-skinned" or "redbone". When you are mixed race, there is an "identity" crisis you go through at some point because you are never "white enough" or "black enough". It creates questions of self-worth and self-acceptance within. It is required to question the ideology about race you were taught growing up and over coming that programming to fully embrace the gray area and completely love who you are without the racial context.