Less of the Mrs Rochester
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1404412,00.html
Why must mixed-race women always be tragic?
Helen Kolawole
Thursday February 3, 2005
The Guardian
Personally speaking, being rebranded from half-caste to mixed race came
as welcome relief. Yet, try as we might to change our image, we tragic
mulatresses remain as doggedly woeful as the salivating madwoman in Mr
Rochester's attic.
Confused, miserable, and in perpetual limbo, we are now apparently
abundant in the world of celebrity. There is the soul singer Alicia
Keys (raised in Hell's Kitchen, absent black father); the actress Halle
Berry (abusive, absent black father); the Olympic medallist Kelly
Holmes (runaway daddy tracked down in Jamaica courtesy of the Daily
Mirror); and the pop star Mariah Carey (absentee black father, racially
ambiguous look).
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